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I've always thought patents were supposed to be detailed enough so that one competent in the field could produce the invention. In SW that is clearly not the c
by kenjackson 16y ago
I've always thought patents were supposed to be detailed enough so that one competent in the field could produce the invention. In SW that is clearly not the case.
I'm not justifying patents. I also think they're generally not useful and destructive. But they are here.
- Natsu 16y agoI certainly agree with you there. Sadly, the metrics the politicians appear to be using to grade the health of the system are: "amount of money made by licensing patents" and "number of patents granted." It doesn't take much imagination to see why those are bad metrics for people more concerned with promoting the progress of science and useful arts.