Re: [Patents] Open ingeneering

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:04:35PM -0400, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >Is patenting really a solution to boost innovation in a networked world?
> 
> There is another aspect to innovation affected by patents, beyond boosting
> innovation.  That is, what peoples and what countries are going to be the
> biggest financial beneficiaries?  If I invent something, I want to be the
> one who builds the company around the new invention, create jobs for my
> community, etc.  Without a patent, my invention (if of any interest to
> the marketplace) is going to be expolited either by a large multinational
> who might write me a nice thankyou letter, or if the invention is more
> product oriented, mass manufactured in China and sold in big chain stores
> around the world.


what is mass manufacturing of software ?

and how much are you paid to write on this list stuff you cannot
possibly believe yourself.



> Thos people who wish to invent and give their invention freely to the world
> for others to benefit economically, my compliments to their altruism.
> Those people who want to control the exploitation of their new invention
> should be just as free to use the patent system to do so.
> 
> If you look at the history of technology in all areas, including software
> technology, innovation has benefitted both from altruistic people and from
> greedy people wanting to make use of patents. 

references ... regarding software technology ?


> It has worked fine for
> over 150 years - I mean if anything peokple have too many technological
> inventions they have to deal with (have of which is in their closets).
> 
> The only thing left is to improve the quality of the patent system, to
> eliminate those patents that are either not novel or show no inventive
> step.
> 
> Greg Aharonian

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