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So the efforts and rights of the company don't matter anymore? We should not just legislate everything based on the interests of the consumer.
by missingrib 7y ago
So the efforts and rights of the company don't matter anymore? We should not just legislate everything based on the interests of the consumer.
- slimsag 7y agoAh yes, the classic "But who will think of the shareholders?!?!11" argument, good point. Frankly, yes, regulations should exist to serve consumers not companies.
- kick 7y agoCompanies aren't people, and people will always be more important than an abstraction. So let's reduce the abstraction here a bit. 80,000 Apple employees. ~330,171,224 residents of the United States of America. 330,171,224 - 80,000 ------------ 330,091,224 Would you say that 330,091,224 is more than 80,000? I would. And really, optimizing for the rights of the consumer helps everyone, including all Apple employees. And this helps the producer, too, because it allows them to ignore software patents as well. Software patents weren't for the good of anyone but executives and legislators when legislators first forced them on everyone against the protests of software devs everywhere decades ago, they aren't suddenly for the good of the common man, now, either.
- zweep 7y agoWhat makes software patents different from other patents? For example for things like the cotton gin.
- kick 7y agohttps://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/lpf/Patents/against-software-patents.html https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/lpf/Patents/agains... This article explains far more elegantly than I will as to why software patents don't make sense.