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

Well, there was talk of differentiating 'embedded' code from the normal,
everyday programming. I suppose it might be relevant to factory
installations and specialty shops that strongly benefit from patents. If the
legislators go this way then the wording becomes crucial.
I can see some businesses sufferring from this but doubt it will be many.
The criticism of the law mostly seems to come from corporations and
lobbyists.
On Oct 1, 2011 6:46 AM, "Daniel Pittman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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