On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 18:27, Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet wrote:
Indeed. It's antiquated, old-fashioned and does not reflect today's society.
Sometimes society get deviated by partisan economical interest and need corrections.
No, it restricts patents to a small subset of technical inventions. *That's* the problem.
That's not the problem, that's the right thing, it has effect only in fields where researching is really difficult and need incentives to speed up progress. And a field where perfect solutions (as in software) does not exist so that different method to achieve the same effect can always be found and a beneficial competition can help into keeping the market healthy
Simo.