Re:How to be successful: steal ideas and copy people
by bediger on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:12AM
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Re: "stealing ideas" vs "improving on them".
Doesn't your comclusion here go against the USA's entire full-court-press on maximal "intellectual property"? I mean, we've extended copyrights, we've allowed just about every vague pipe-dream to be patented, and we've actually criminalized reverse engineering in a lot of situations.
I sympathize with your viewpoint, but is that the direction we're heading? Are we heading in the right direction?
Doesn't your comclusion here go against the USA's entire full-court-press on maximal "intellectual property"? I mean, we've extended copyrights, we've allowed just about every vague pipe-dream to be patented, and we've actually criminalized reverse engineering in a lot of situations.
I sympathize with your viewpoint, but is that the direction we're heading? Are we heading in the right direction?