"Dmitry V. Gorbatovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Hasler wrote: > >> Then keep it secret. > It is indeed possible. > And I can sell just results of using it. > > But let me remind you , that all point of patent law is to give > society new ideas and possibilities to create further innovations > based on openly available knowledge, while protecting the rights of > people who share their secrets.
Uh, no, not the rights. Their billfolds. The whole point of patents is to make innovation _pay_ _off_, nothing else. One problem particularly with software patents is that it makes a wagonload of other things pay off, and thus the relative increase of public knowledge through patents gets more and more counterbalanced by lots of problems where one can't market one's own ideas and products without getting into a quagmire of registered patents on utterly straightforward constructions. As it stands, the current patent system is out of control, something which even its proponents will tend to acknowledge. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
