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Bill: Intellectual Property & Technology Enhancement Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalist Working Families
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2442
Description[?]:
This bill simply asserts the fundamental and INALIENABLE right of the people of this Commonwealth to file a patent for a software or computer design of their OWN imagination and labor. Thank you for your full support. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on the source code of software.
Old value:: The government requires that all source be opened.
Current: The government does not require that all source be opened but heavilly regulates closed source software.
Proposed: The government has no stance on the source code of software.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Proposed: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:07:52, August 10, 2007 CET | From | Deus Ex Machina Party | To | Debating the Intellectual Property & Technology Enhancement Act |
| Message | We just passed the bill claiming the exact opposite. At least wait more than a month before trying to reverse our decision? |
| Date | 17:01:01, August 10, 2007 CET | From | Neo-Epicurean Party | To | Debating the Intellectual Property & Technology Enhancement Act |
| Message | With respect to the Deus Ex Machina Party, this is part of how the game of politics is played. We oppose the bill and will continue to vote against it. |
| Date | 17:08:27, August 10, 2007 CET | From | Quellist Party | To | Debating the Intellectual Property & Technology Enhancement Act |
| Message | voting no for reasons stated in the other Bill. |
| Date | 01:31:27, August 11, 2007 CET | From | Vaguely-Remembered Party | To | Debating the Intellectual Property & Technology Enhancement Act |
| Message | why can't there be patents on software? that's ridiculous that you are voting against someone's ability to claim their own work and protect it. |
| Date | 02:39:57, August 11, 2007 CET | From | Deus Ex Machina Party | To | Debating the Intellectual Property & Technology Enhancement Act |
| Message | Because our robotic citizens feel that it violates their freedoms. How would you organics like it if Playing Ping-Pong V2.0 was no longer an opensource easily shared skill, and instead cost 250RUT on the open market? |
| Date | 02:59:56, August 11, 2007 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Intellectual Property & Technology Enhancement Act |
| Message | Well, D-E-M Party, you make an excellent point except for one "SMALL" reason: Robots are NOT human beings and can be thereby programmed and controlled unlike us who FREE WILL!!! |
| Date | 07:11:43, August 11, 2007 CET | From | Militaristic Party | To | Debating the Intellectual Property & Technology Enhancement Act |
| Message | Programs cannot be patented. They are like a science, you need the new developments in code to maximize your own codes. Open-Source up, proprietary down. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 356 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 394 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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