Re: Patents can be for good, not only evil

There are 2 people who own every right on computers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

and programming

http://www.agnesscott.edu/Lriddle/women/love.htm

All patents therafter are infringements of the work of
these two people.

Well even those two people built on the work of other people.


Kind regards
Peter and Karin Dambier


Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:02:10 -0700
> "Lawrence Rosen" <lrosen(_at_)rosenlaw(_dot_)com> wrote:
>
>
> > Eric Burger wrote:
> >
> > > I specifically applied for patents underlying the technology behind
> > > RFC 4722/RFC 5022 and RFC 4730 specifically to prevent third
> > > parties, who are not part of the IETF process, from extracting
> > > royalties from someone who implements MSCML or KPML.  
> > That was a waste of your time and money. Publication of those
> > inventions by you, at zero cost to you and others, would have been
> > sufficient to prevent someone else from trying to patent them. Next
> > time, get good advice from a patent lawyer on how to achieve your
> > goals without paying for a patent.
>
> You're obviously right in theory on this point.  I wonder whether
> you're right in practice.  We've all seen far too many really bad
> patents issued, ones where prior art is legion.  The (U.S.) patent
> office seems to do a far better job of searching its own databases than
> it does the technical literature.
>
> I know there are many philosophical reasons why many people oppose
> software patents.  But for others, there are very practical reasons:
> there are too many bad patents issued.  I think we can all agree that
> stopping bad patents is a worthwhile goal, even if for some it's just
> an intermediate goal.
>
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
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