Re: [Patents] Russell's contempt for the motivation of scientists and engineers

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 20:38, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> Russell writes:
> >I think I am most comfortable with software copyright because I think of
> >the software I create similar to how an artist or author thinks of what
> >they create.  It is not simply about economic incentives, but about who
> >we are. The software we write is not simply a set of functionality in an
> >industrial sense, but an expression in a human readable language of
> >something that is part of us.
> 
> Nice insult of all of the science community, a contempt I see too often.
> Let me illustrate:

Syntax respectfully inspired by Hartmut's...

==> GregBot feels insulted because he thinks of himself as a
representative of the science community.

> So when you stop insulting the other patented branches of science and
> engineering, you are left with yet another aspect that software has
> in common with all other patented areas - that its inventors are
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> motivated in a variety of ways.
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==> GregBot finally starting to see the light?
    At least in Portugal, in all patented areas, _MOST_ inventors don't
patent. Maybe they rather investigate than patent.

Rui
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