I agree with you, Daniel, about improvements, but, this patent is try
to stake a claim on something that we have all been doing ever since we
created two applications on two networked computers that communicated
via some protocol. Read claim 1 and think about how broad it is.
Alex Janssen
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Eric Hines wrote:
Actually, the concept of patents and copyrights is a good one
I'd agree about copyrights, but not patents. I think that getting a
monopoly on an IDEA is ridiculous.
--it compensates the inventor(s) for their efforts, and so spurs
innovation
I've never seen any evidence that granting a monopoly over an idea
(patents) spur innovation. And I have seen a lot of evidence to the
contrary. Putting roadblocks in the sharing of ideas inhibits
progress, since all ideas are based on relatively small modifications
of old ones.
--the performance of the open source community notwithstanding.
And the scientific community, which is much older, by several hundred
years.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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