Re: [Patents] That Article

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

>   Take my belief that software code is a form of law.  
> http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/code-is-law-speedgeek.html
> 
>   Should those laws (that code) that govern the public be public in
> nature, or private/industrial in nature?

They probably shouldn't be copyrighted either.

In this respect the "code = law" argument is weak.

We are not talking about whether or not something should be private but
by which set of rules it should be privatised.

And here it is important to specifiy the parameters "fast, cheap, narrow" 
as the mainstream IP ruleset of the future, a spec on which the patent 
system badly fails and copyright performs quite well, both in software and
other useful arts.  The patent system does not provide a workable ruleset
for the useful arts, except perhaps for some niches, and then mainly by
coincidence.