http://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/05/15/said-it-once-before-but-it-bears-repeating/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:07:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/05/15/said-it-once-before-but-it-bears-repeating/comment-page-1/#comment-1271 Ken Kennedy Thu, 22 May 2008 15:51:33 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=545#comment-1271 Well-spoken, dude. These arguments just keep rising from the grave...we gotta just keep cutting them down. Damn, it's tedious at times. Well-spoken, dude. These arguments just keep rising from the grave…we gotta just keep cutting them down. Damn, it’s tedious at times.

]]> http://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/05/15/said-it-once-before-but-it-bears-repeating/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 Phil Sat, 17 May 2008 16:44:25 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=545#comment-1270 Look, I'm extremely sympathetic to the idea that perhaps software patents are a bad idea, but I'm not sure I really the buy the second to last paragraph. In a nutshell, it seems like you're saying that it's extremely cheap to develop very valuable software, no use mucking about making it more expensive. That can't be right. Pharmaceutical development is extremely expensive, yet it's ok to add even more costs by creating legal protections that have to be designed around? Isn't the real argument here is that "valuable: software developments are hard to monetize, hard to protect, and perhaps don't return enough to make a retainer worth the trouble? Look, I’m extremely sympathetic to the idea that perhaps software patents are a bad idea, but I’m not sure I really the buy the second to last paragraph.
In a nutshell, it seems like you’re saying that it’s extremely cheap to develop very valuable software, no use mucking about making it more expensive. That can’t be right. Pharmaceutical development is extremely expensive, yet it’s ok to add even more costs by creating legal protections that have to be designed around? Isn’t the real argument here is that “valuable: software developments are hard to monetize, hard to protect, and perhaps don’t return enough to make a retainer worth the trouble?

]]> http://www.manifestdensity.net/2008/05/15/said-it-once-before-but-it-bears-repeating/comment-page-1/#comment-1269 James Hare Sat, 17 May 2008 02:21:11 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:8888/?p=545#comment-1269 YES YES YES!! This post should be required reading for every patent examiner, every member of congress, the President and many other people I can't think to name. Software patents are teh sux0rz. And if Microsoft really has patents on Linux they oughta put up or shut up. YES YES YES!!
This post should be required reading for every patent examiner, every member of congress, the President and many other people I can’t think to name.
Software patents are teh sux0rz. And if Microsoft really has patents on Linux they oughta put up or shut up.

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