Nice letter, glad to hear the 'end patents' drum beat growing louder.
though I don't have any patents personally (companies I've worked for do) I'm not a fan of patents either. I always find this site questioncopyright.org (http://questioncopyright.org/promise) to be uplifting when I think about out the US patent and copyright system.
There is another website with a Kato-centric viewpoint that talks about recent copyright issues. This article is specific to whether you 'rent' or 'own' software. He specifically talks about how renting software is actually better, and is a very interesting viewpoint.
I've never really thought about renting software, it might make it more practical to get legitimate copies of something like photoshop, which is fairly expensive.
For the web (and really and computer software) I am in the more liberal camp of http://unlicense.org/ (no affiliation to them) I think opening up everything to the public domain will speed innovation, among other things.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 20.1 ms ] threadthough I don't have any patents personally (companies I've worked for do) I'm not a fan of patents either. I always find this site questioncopyright.org (http://questioncopyright.org/promise) to be uplifting when I think about out the US patent and copyright system.
There is another website with a Kato-centric viewpoint that talks about recent copyright issues. This article is specific to whether you 'rent' or 'own' software. He specifically talks about how renting software is actually better, and is a very interesting viewpoint.
http://techliberation.com/2010/09/20/the-end-of-software-own...
Thanks for the compliment on the letter too.
For the web (and really and computer software) I am in the more liberal camp of http://unlicense.org/ (no affiliation to them) I think opening up everything to the public domain will speed innovation, among other things.