Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 06:46 PM EST |
For the same reason that you climb a mountain, because it is there and you can.
Only a fool do it for any monetary reward.
It is a poor World that is only build on money. Curiosity solves most
problems!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 06:57 PM EST |
Worked for software for years, until the courts got confused and couldn't tell
the difference between an invention and an implementation.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 10:14 PM EST |
Please identify where - in patent Law - spending lots of time on something is
a factor that makes it patent eligible!
Thanks!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 11:15 PM EST |
That worked for many years - think MS Excel vs VisiCalc vs
QuatroPro), (Windows vs Xerox PARC vs Apple), Oracle vs IBM vs
world over SQL.
Patents were not needed to further development of any
software. Unfortunately, underhanded and even illegal business
practices are what got many (unnamed) tech companies where
they are today. Patents would not have hindered those
practices, and only now are brought into play because the old
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Authored by: bprice on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 03:42 AM EST |
It's probably a safe bet that someone, somewhere is developing a
killer software program, right now, that will do something completely new and
unique. Maybe the programmer has put a lot of time into perfecting it, hoping,
someday, to get a reward for their investment if hard work and
originality.
Why in world would they do that, if on
the first day after their software is put on sale, Microsoft (or some other huge
company) would "legally" steal it and shut them out of any profit for all that
hard work and dedication?
Copyright would protect against
Microsoft. They're known not to be competent in software, so all they could do
would be flatout copy. However, they couldn't get it through their management
maze in any reasonable time frame: even overnight infringement is impossible
for them.
Any company competent to re-engineer and re-implement the software
overnight would raise a big red flag about your hypothetical programmer: if the
work is so trivial that it could be re-engineered and re-implemented overnight,
especially by a "other huge company", why did the original programmer devote so
much "hard work and dedication" on it? If his judgement is so weak that he
couldn't see the triviality of his work, why should his judgement be trusted on
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Authored by: Wol on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 04:15 PM EST |
Nearly all the intellectual work in writing a program is defining the problem.
The solution is then just grunt work. And patents aren't there to protect grunt.
That's copyright or "registered design" (yes I know that's *also*
called a patent in America :-(
Cheers,
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