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>Software patents like Amazon's for "1 click purchases" I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in th

>Software patents like Amazon's for "1 click purchases" I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in their process. >We have that problem with midwifes in Germany, who are dropping out in droves because insurance prices exploded [1][2][3]. I'm not convinced that's a bad thing, especially in Germany where there seems to be a lot of woo based practice masquerading as actual medicine. If the insurance prices are exploding due to actual malpractice, the profession probably should clean up their act which necessitates people leaving the profession. Sure you probably lose some of the good with the bad, but maybe they should have cleaned house a little earlier.

mschuster91 2y ago
> I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in their process. it's a drain on any startup company doing anything with the web to search for trivial patents. Thankfully, Europeans don't have to do this. > If the insurance prices are exploding due to actual malpractice, the profession probably should clean up their act which necessitates people leaving the profession. Sure you probably lose some of the good with the bad, but maybe they should have cleaned house a little earlier. This is not about homeopathy crap, this is about actual errors that can happen, people aren't infallible after all - just that the financial impact to liability insurances in such cases used to be waaaay lower even 20 years ago than it is now.
- Suppafly 2y ago
  > just that the financial impact to liability insurances in such cases used to be waaaay lower even 20 years ago than it is now. Sure but everyone mostly accepted that malpractice just happened and lived with the results back then, things are better now.
nickpsecurity 2y ago
"I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in their process." Much research shows that many people will leave one site for another for the tiniest delay or inconvenience. They've long competed on this. Why do you think Amazon patented saving a click or two in the first place? Also, patents like this force most sites to be inconvenient for customers to avoid getting sued. Increasing patents like this increases odds that a site owner is sued for their optimizations. Also, patents don't allow for independent creation like copyright does. Every patent takes that method away from everyone else for 20 years even when they independently invented it. I dont like patents at all. Even if we have a system, we shouldn't allow patents for software because they're only a hindrance to most software developers. We virtually never use or benefit from them. People who such money from developers using patents rarely contributed anything of value. Usually just filed a piece of paper.

mschuster91 2y ago

> I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in their process. it's a drain on any startup company doing anything with the web to search for trivial patents. Thankfully, Europeans don't have to do this. > If the insurance prices are exploding due to actual malpractice, the profession probably should clean up their act which necessitates people leaving the profession. Sure you probably lose some of the good with the bad, but maybe they should have cleaned house a little earlier. This is not about homeopathy crap, this is about actual errors that can happen, people aren't infallible after all - just that the financial impact to liability insurances in such cases used to be waaaay lower even 20 years ago than it is now.

Suppafly 2y ago
> just that the financial impact to liability insurances in such cases used to be waaaay lower even 20 years ago than it is now. Sure but everyone mostly accepted that malpractice just happened and lived with the results back then, things are better now.

nickpsecurity 2y ago

"I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in their process." Much research shows that many people will leave one site for another for the tiniest delay or inconvenience. They've long competed on this. Why do you think Amazon patented saving a click or two in the first place? Also, patents like this force most sites to be inconvenient for customers to avoid getting sued. Increasing patents like this increases odds that a site owner is sued for their optimizations. Also, patents don't allow for independent creation like copyright does. Every patent takes that method away from everyone else for 20 years even when they independently invented it. I dont like patents at all. Even if we have a system, we shouldn't allow patents for software because they're only a hindrance to most software developers. We virtually never use or benefit from them. People who such money from developers using patents rarely contributed anything of value. Usually just filed a piece of paper.