patents in a free society (Re: Brother can you help a fiber?)

[Adam Back]

In my opinion patents and copyright are incompatible with a free society and
crypto-anarchy: ie with the right to privately contract, and right to
cryptograhically enforced privacy (encryption), and freedom of association
(pseudonymous/anonymous networks).

You'd think Jim would get that given is previous explorations of the darker
side of Tim May's cyphernomicon catalog of ideas...

Patents are also stupidly destructive as the technical world is filled with
literally millions of junk patents, with redudant overlap, so you cant do
anything without tripping over 100s of junk patents.  Even the USG finally
started to try to belatedly reform the idiocy.

(Without any aspersions of the junk or non junk status of Jim's patent as I
am not a hardware guy).  My threshold is if any strongly competent engineer
can dream this idea up in a week when asked the same questions, its clearly
a junk patent designed to sabotage and leach off other peoples productivity.

Adam

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 09:12:53AM +0000, Cathal Garvey (Phone) wrote:
>   I look forward to a world without patents, so I'm afraid all that
>   waffle about obtaining a worldwide government-enforced-monopoly merely
>   made me sigh a bit.