drew Roberts wrote:> On Saturday 22 March 2008 06:34:39 Arnold Krille wrote:> >> Am Samstag, 22. März 2008 schrieb Folderol:>> >>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:42:04 -0400>>>>>> frank <frankpirrone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>> >>>> Arnold Krille wrote:>>>> >>>>> Am Freitag, 21. März 2008 schrieb frank:>>>>> >>>>> <snip>> I have some ideas on patents here:>> http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/2007/06/simple-idea-for-patent-reform.html> Simple Idea For Patent Reform>> thoughts and refinements appreciated.>> drew> Yeah, I had seen that piece before, and it was surprising from that but even moreso your message postings how deeply into this issue you've gotten. It's a crucial one, to be sure. Your two-tier proposal has the benefit of logic and simplicity. It'll be a nice bit of legerdemain reforming the current state of total perversion visited upon the patent process. I fear the power-of-life-and-death wielded by our corporate overlords, and the influence they hold over our nominal representative-democratic legislators to be insuperable. Some things are less arguable than others, but if you're willing to be generous, the original patent intent and execution, just like the original specifications for the country that used to be known as america, pretty much got it right. There's such a gulf between a discovery resulting from a search open to all and participated in by many, and an idea, and a method - as such one amongst many, and a particular sequence of rather generic steps, etc., etc.,... and the creation of a truly non-prior-art, non-obvious, non-creatible -by-ordinary-man invention. Take the freedom of ideas out of the equation and you have poor Newton tumbling to the ground and seeing no further than the floor-sweep who comes to help. Everything I've ever conceived, developed, made, and in some cased profited from I have given away, at least I gave away the means, so don't ask me for one of my 33-voice electric solid-body guitars! _______________________________________________Linux-audio-user mailing listLinux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
