-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As you know, I'm mid way here. I think that the current patent system is ridiculous, but patents are needed, as said Cedric. So, we need just to bring them to a reasonable point: a) don't patent obvious stuff and b) set a shorter time before they expire. In my opinion, it's a matter of equilibrium: the innovation corporate must have some time to gets most of the revenues from the idea that needed big money. I don't see a qualitative difference between software and other thigns; I see a quantitative difference, in that the software world evolves quicker, and thus it needs shorter expiration times.
That's why while I strive for a reform, I believe that the mass movement about totally preventing software patents from occurring is bad too. For what concerns fashion... well, it's fashion. It's useless stuff, where only marketing matters. Often, the only difference between an original product and the chinese copy is that the latter misses the badge, but more and more often the materials used to create the "original" product are nevertheless made in China (of course, there are also poor quality copies). A fashion product is supposedly made of two things: it's aesthetically appealing and it should be made with quality materials. For the former thing, everybody should just evaluate with his/her personal taste, not leaving morons writing for newspaper in Milan, Paris or New York to decide what's beautiful and what's not. For the latter thing, not necessarily a branded product is better than another. I really hope that our technology products are very different (*)! So I wouldn't call a comparison with the fashion industry. (*) Note that similar arguments could be done e.g. for the Oracle DB and Postgres, but in our business there's the integration and consultancy thing, that doesn't matter for fashion. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyDWHoACgkQeDweFqgUGxdR6QCfWNdwRo5SaOEaE4gupeYqliwC TNQAn3orSergqumJwFbPqNZPHxT7DBAA =uSnb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
