From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 23:50:33 MST
Hal Finney wrote:
> If everyone were like you, no one would use patents, so the issue would be
> moot. The problem only arises with regard to inventors who are interested
> in protecting their ideas, since that is the function of patents.
> Refusing to consider such inventors renders discussion impossible.
> Your approach to this problem is fundamentally self-contradictory.
To be precise, what some inventors seek to protect with patents is
a monopoly on a given market, rather than an idea. The idea is in
no danger of being harmed. :)
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> 'Institute regime change everywhere... to "None of the above."' -- Alex Future Bokov
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