From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 22:34:13 MST
Samantha writes:
> As an innovator myself I could
> care less about protecting my ideas. What I most want is to get
> my innovations in common use and see my ideas be the springboard
> for still other ideas. Money is not my primary motivation as
> long as I have enough to continue doing the things I am
> interested in.
Therefore, you will not seek patent protection, will you?
> I do not think I am alone in this. So I find
> this argument for patents to be empty.
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.
Hal Finney
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