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patent thoughts.
| author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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| date | Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:38:27 +0000 |
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| 1 #+title: Thoughts on Patents | |
| 2 #+author: Robert McIntyre | |
| 3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu | |
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| 6 #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org | |
| 7 #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org | |
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| 10 * Patents generally an inhibitive force. | |
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| 12 Patents are usually a negative force, one that allows you to stop | |
| 13 other entities from using knowledge to their own advantage. | |
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| 15 * Google has created "neutral" patents via a pledge which attaches conditions to its patents. | |
| 16 Google has a pledge at | |
| 17 http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/pledge/ that says that for | |
| 18 certain specified patents "we pledge not to sue any user, | |
| 19 distributor or developer of open-source software on specified | |
| 20 patents, unless first attacked." | |
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| 22 This is an interesting statement to me. With this pledge, Google has | |
| 23 created "neutral" patents that allow open source software to | |
| 24 develop, but do not particurally encourage it to develop. | |
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