Re: Ten years later
- From: "rhyde@xxxxxxxxxx" <rhyde@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Mar 2007 06:59:01 -0800
On Mar 8, 11:59 pm, Betov <b...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Because the whole knowledge of the humanity belongs to the humanity,and
if our ancestor had not invented the stone axes, nobody would have ever
invented any plane, any math, any anything.
And patents *exactly* do that. They encourage people to share their
ideas with humanity in exchange for a *very* short period of time
during which they have a monopoly on the commercial exploitation of
that idea.
BTW, you *do* understand that it's okay to *use* a patented idea for
your own personal reasons, right? That is, if somebody invents
something and you use that idea to make a copy for your own personal
use, this is allowed. What you cannot do is mass produce and
distribute the item to others.
IOW, the knowledge is there, you may freely use it; what you cannot do
is *profit* from that idea until the patent expires (even if your
measure of profit consists of *hurting* the sales of the inventor).
And if you have a problem with someone else making a profit off their
own work, why would you care if you cannot profit off their work (or
cause harm to their profit, as seems to be your motivation)?
When you "invent" something, it includes all of the previous knowledges,
and whatever useful thing you could invent and create,
So?
That's why encouraging invention is such a good idea. Because your
invention will inspire others. Patents are a good way to encourage
innovation and invention. Without patents, most people would simply
say "why bother?"
it belongs to the
humanity,
Yes, it does. And patents guarantee this by moving the idea into the
public domain once the patent expires. Without patents, those people
would probably keep the idea secret, so humanity would never get that
knowledge. Therefore, it is *exactly* patents that encourage releasing
ideas to humanity and the lack of a patent system would have exactly
the opposite effect.
and you deserve absolutely nothing for have a bright idea
coming out from your brain.
I'm sure you believe that. But that's just an admission on your part
that you are incapable of creating new ideas yourself and you depend
upon the ideas of everyone else. I'm sure someone in your position
would love to have access to everyone else's ideas so that you
wouldn't have to do the work to come up with novel ideas yourself. Sad
for you, that's not the way the world works. And when people like you
complain about the patent system in the way you're complaining, all
that does is convince the law makers that they need to *strengthen*
the patent system, not abolish it.
This is even more and more self-evident nowadays, when the sciences and
knowledges have become dispatched and collective.
And paid for by whom?
When the governments (i.e., the "people") pay for the research, the
"people" get the knowledge (usually free and clear, at least that's
the case in the US). However, when that research is done at the
expense of a corporation, without taxpayers footing the bill for that
research, what makes you think the public is entitled to that research
without paying for it? And don't forget that "paying for it" includes
paying for all the failed research that led up to that point (and the
public is notoriously fickle about being willing to pay for failed
research -- there are stories all the time about how tax dollars are
"wasted" on research that doesn't produce anything).
Cheers,
Randy Hyde
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