Re: [nzlug] Reviewing a proponent’s arguments in f avour of #swpatents

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 18:18, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I thought this would be of interest to members of this community. I've
> written up an evaluation of Airways Corporation's support for software
> patents at the Open Knowledge Foundation's Notebook[0].
>
> Welcome any discussion and people pointing out flaws in my reasoning.

When Airways' compare the situation to theft, I think they are
clumsily trying to express that (from their business perspective)
having a competitor produce a cheap clone of your software after you
invested in solving hard problems is comparable to having them steal
the results of research.

An analogy to the physical world would be that they invested heavily
in the design of a physical item, potentially millions in R&D, and
then a competitor purchased one, took it apart, and started selling an
exact clone at lower cost – because they don't have to do the R&D.

So, which I don't disagree with what you say, I think responding to
the intent (however poorly worded) would be more compelling.

Otherwise, it seemed solid to me. :)

Daniel
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