On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Miroslav Pokorny < miroslav.poko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/09/2010, at 4:06 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> wrote: > > > > > How so? Most of the innovative software companies are in the US, so > certainly, the software patent system can't be as bad as you say it is, > right? > > > > -- > > Cédric > > Are you sure that's not because the USA Market is bigger so most or many > companies move to the USA. It could be argued the Japanese or British game > industries are larger and more creative than their American competitors. > Glad to see someone is keeping up :-) You are right, it's certainly not a logical equivalence, but the reverse argument can be used as well: how come countries that don't have any software patent laws are not insanely innovative in the software field? I gave my thought on this in another message, but I'll repeat it here: because in such countries, the fact that anyone can steal and reuse anybody's idea is actually a deterrent to innovation. Why bother inventing something new when you can just repackage what already exists? And if patents are such a good thing why is the largest CPU design firm from > England (aka ARM) ? > I don't see any connection between this fact and the presence or absence of software patent laws, so this question is probably a strawman. -- Cédric -- 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.
