[Novalug] Microsoft demands royalties for open-source software

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Right, and two large prime numbers can be used to raise other numbers to 
their power modulo a third number and get back the same number....

Oh, wait....

The simple thing is that in reality there is No Such Thing as 
Intellectual Property. Both Patents and Copyright were designed to 
encourage their authors a Temporary Right to exploit them in exchange 
for revealing them. The Ultimate Purpose is to Benefit The Public.

Thus, all Intellectual Property is merely a Temporary Loan from the 
Public Domain.

JIM

Herminio Hernandez wrote:
> Mathatics are abstract principles that are not invented, but rather are
> discovered. 2+2=4 regardless of who knew it. that is like saying gravity
> can pentented. no on is arguing for that. Now that would be silly. But
> if someone took the time and the energy to use principles such as math
> and physics to create something that he thinks would benefit people and
> wants to place a value on it. then he should be protected from theft.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 20:27 -0400, gregory pryzby wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:13:56PM -0400, Herminio Hernandez wrote:
>>     
>>> I am not against intellectual property rights, if someone invented
>>> somthing they should have the right if they wish to profit off it. i
>>> realize there is a debate as to where software fits into all this. i
>>> will be to anyone thoughts on the matter.
>>>       
>> I am against them. Like a mathematical equation, there is a way to
>> solve a problem, and just because I have the money to file a patent
>> with a system that doesn't bother to look and see if there is prior
>> art, doesn't mean I should have rights. Nevermind that information
>> should be free. If I add value, that is worth something. 
>>
>> Patenting a progress bar? Come on. 
>>  
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 18:33 -0400, Ross Patterson wrote:
>>>       
>>>> At 17:36 5/14/2007, Herminio Hernandez wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> I hear you it is just MS has not come up w/ anything original in a
>>>>> while! Just look at Vista all it is OS X! They frustrate me.
>>>>>           
>>>> So if they came up with something original, I guess you wouldn't mind 
>>>> them patenting it?  Microsoft files dozens of patent applications 
>>>> every month - the USPTO has published 104 applications and granted 51 
>>>> new patents fro Microsoft already this month, and it's only 
>>>> half-over.  Some look on the surface to be non-trivial (e.g., Appl. 
>>>> 20070101314 "Compiling join patterns using software transactional 
>>>> memories", Patent 7,212,309 "Best fit printing").
>>>>         
>
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