Re: Fear of Life (was Microsoft, Automation)

ChuckKuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Tue, 5 May 1998 20:05:18 -0500 (CDT)

At 10:51 5/4/98 -0700, you wrote:
>In a world without patents, 99% of new products would be small
>incremental improvements to existing products, with next to zero
>research costs involved. Those projects that /do/ require long
>research (if any--nature shows us that incremental improvement
>is sufficient to create extremely complex and powerful things)
>will probably be undertaken by industry consortia who contract
>with each other to share the risk and benefit of it.
>

Now you have given the world over to the industry consortiums who end up as
virtual monopolies. An individual has no hope of being able to bring a
revolutionary idea to life unless he sells his soul to the company store...

I am not willing to wait for 'evolution' to generate the products I will
need to survive in the next millennium. I want people to be able to make
leaps and bounds in creation, and benefit from their own efforts. I thought
we were supposed to improve on nature, not slavishly follow it..

Chuck Kuecker