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Re: Some Obvious Thing

Chris Brand — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:36:27 -0000

Of course they can be both good for the incumbents and bad for the industry as a whole.

Re: Some Obvious Thing

small inventor (aka "patent tr — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:26:08 -0000

Bullshit...

Re: Some Obvious Thing

eee_eff — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:09:31 -0000

"Patents are bad for the software industry?"

Probably not, for incumbents. Government-enforced barriers to entry are a good thing. USPTO does for Big Software what the FCC does for Big Media and the FDA does for Big Pharma.

No. government enforced barriers to entry are almost uniformly a bad thing, and lead inevitably to less competition.

Conflating Health and Safety or environmental programs with other 'Government-enforced barriers to entry' is not correct; those programs are necessary for other reasons, and although they may sometimes be a barrier to entry, they are not always so.

They exist for other reasons. Just ask a few folks in Panama that bought what they thought was cold medicine...

Re: Some Obvious Thing

Don Marti — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:47:33 -0000

"Patents are bad for the software industry?"

Probably not, for incumbents. Government-enforced barriers to entry are a good thing. USPTO does for Big Software what the FCC does for Big Media and the FDA does for Big Pharma.