Re: Do patents really foster innovation?

From: Wei Dai (weidai@weidai.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 18:09:54 MST

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    On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:01:48PM -0800, Hal Finney wrote:
    > In any case I still hope that Palladium and similar technology experiments
    > proceed and are allowed to compete in the marketplace with a wide variety
    > of other approaches to handling intellectual property.

    I haven't followed the Palladium debate too closely myself. Do you think
    any of the arguments against it are reasonable? If not why are people so
    worked up about it?

    Speaking of alternative approaches to handling intellectual property,
    here's a proposal I made on another mailing list:

    http://www.weidai.com/measuring.txt

    and some follow up discussion with Robin Hanson:

    armchair@gmu.edu/msg02481.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/armchair@gmu.edu/msg02481.html



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