> In message <199812202338.SAA30539@escape.widomaker.com>, C S Hendrix writes:
> +-----
> | In message <m0zrrTE-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
> | > > What a minute. If I personally spend US $10K on something, I want
> | > > protection too. In today's world, some corporation comes along and
> | >
> | > $10K, Oh forget it, they countersue for something frivolous you go bankru
>pt
> | > they take the patent as part payment, end of problem
> |
> | The point was that you deserve protection regardless of how much
> | money you have, nothing more.
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>
> Alan's point is, *you can't get that protection now*. The patent system
> won't help you, and there are companies which specialize in using it to
> screw you, the inventor who supposedly is "protected" by it. (Indeed, IBM's
> no slouch in that department.)
>
> Whatever it is you think you're looking for, the patent system is NOT it.
I never said you could get that protection.
What I said was that a law based on how much money you have is wrong.
Someone suggested that patents should only be available for a
certain amount of money. So I said I would want protection even
for my $10K investment.
I was NOT in any way, shape, form, or fashion suggesting I could
actually get protection, I was simply disagreeing with the idea of
protection level == financial power.
Good grief... making it law can't be anything but worse!
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