"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.v3yn2di8eav7ka@localhost.localdomain...
> the fact that software patents are *rarely* beneficial to the > community. "the fact"? Citation to scientific studies required. "THE community". You mean "the entitled" set who couldn't create anything on their own if their life depended on it? Those who can't program themselves out of a paper bag? Those who want everything, right now and don't want to work or invest the time to learn? The cognitively lazy? What-is/whom-are this "THE community" group? > They are mostly used as weapons to stifle innovation from others. So to not "give, Give, GIVE!" to these people: http://www.aspeneducation.com/article-entitlement.html, is "to stifle"? Are you one of them trying to propagandishly conceiving scenario like a child trying to "get their way"? Are you are tantrumming because no one will give you everything you want and won't wait on you hand and foot? > In essence, software patents have had an *opposite* effect on the > industry compared to something like building cars. In other words, > there's no need for patents to allow software ideas to be seen by > others, it's possible to extract the ideas from the code. That sounds like a threat. Of course, those with the ability to create and who have invested their time in learning, rather than "copying someone else's homework" do not see the copycat followers as threats at all, but rather as wastes of life.
