IP law: undemocratic, totalitarian, and unethical
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 30th Jun 2012 19:34 UTC
Legal Yesterday, we were treated to another preliminary injunction on a product due to patent trolling. Over the past few years, some companies have resorted to patent trolling instead of competing on merit, using frivolous and obvious software and design patents to block competitors - even though this obviously shouldn't be legal. The fact that this is, in fact, legal, is baffling, and up until a few months ago, a regular topic here on OSNews. At some point - I stopped reporting on the matter. The reason for this is simple: I realised that intellectual property law exists outside of regular democratic processes and is, in fact, wholly and utterly totalitarian. What's the point in reporting on something we can't change via legal means?
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RE: You guys are really kooks!
by Thom_Holwerda on Sun 1st Jul 2012 16:19 UTC in reply to "You guys are really kooks!"
Thom_Holwerda
Member since:
2005-06-29

Thom, you are an anarchist.


That one's new. Totally idiotic, of course, but still new. A welcome change from the "anti-my-pet-company"-stuff I usually get.

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silix Member since:
2006-03-01

"Thom, you are an anarchist.


That one's new. Totally idiotic, of course, but still new. A welcome change from the "anti-my-pet-company"-stuff I usually get. "i think he meant anarchist as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism (in that way
raher than an insult...

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zima Member since:
2005-07-06

When was the last time you tested yourself? ;)
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

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