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I'm not at all opposed to a bounty on awesome ideas. But I think the nature of the bounty needs to change to something that still encourages innovation. The w
by rauljara 17y ago
I'm not at all opposed to a bounty on awesome ideas. But I think the nature of the bounty needs to change to something that still encourages innovation. The whole, "no one can do anything with this cool idea but me" thing really stifles the spread of technology.
- hugh3 17y agoAny suggestions as to how else it could work? I suppose you could have a bureaucratic body which tries to determine the value of that idea and then pays a bounty in cash, but that sounds like a terrible idea in all sorts of ways.
- rauljara 17y agoI guess you could have a system where you were required to pay the patent holder if you made money off of their patent, but the patent holder couldn't outright prevent you from using it. You could also set some upper limit as to what they could charge, so that the patent holder couldn't set the fee to some prohibitively high level. Maybe some ratio relative to the cost of production and documented cost of development? It would bureaucratic and annoying for patent holders, no doubt, but at least this way the people who develop technology could be rewarded for it while not squelching other innovation.