Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 12, 2004 03:54 AM
First, corporations are too powerful to allow patent protections to be weakened. Changing the system is not going to happen.
What needs to be found is a way to overload the system. I wish I knew a solution as elegant as the GPL is...but I don't.
Here's a guess though...
Maybe idea registries supported with digital signatures that keep the ideas secret. The system would only be searchable by people who agree not to patent any software ideas.
Because it is secret, it would represent a risk to anyone applying for a patent. They wouldn't know if their great patent for an invention storing data in method xyz has already been discovered.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 12, 2004 03:54 AMWhat needs to be found is a way to overload the system. I wish I knew a solution as elegant as the GPL is...but I don't.
Here's a guess though...
Maybe idea registries supported with digital signatures that keep the ideas secret. The system would only be searchable by people who agree not to patent any software ideas.
Because it is secret, it would represent a risk to anyone applying for a patent. They wouldn't know if their great patent for an invention storing data in method xyz has already been discovered.
A solution can be found by keener minds.
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