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Bill: The Freedom To Choose Bill.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Independence Coalition
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: November 2483
Description[?]:
| Source code is the product of the labor of individuals and groups as such we believe that it is the writer's prerogative to chose what can and can not be done with their creation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on the source code of software.
Old value:: The government does not require that all source be opened but heavilly regulates closed source software.
Current: The government does not require that all source be opened but heavilly regulates closed source software.
Proposed: The government allows both open and closed source software.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Proposed: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:03:01, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the The Freedom To Choose Bill. |
| Message | Yes, the current system needlessly punishes otherwise creative individuals who could make astonishing discoveries but do not want to because of reciving nothing for it. Also, the current system aids foreign nations that have patent systems by allowing our inventions pattened there. |
| Date | 03:59:06, November 09, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the The Freedom To Choose Bill. |
| Message | No to both. 1. Closed source is heavily regulated to prevent companies from either gaining monopolies or practicing unfair actions. 2. Software is not a physical thing, rather a digital code of 1's and 0's and thusly should not be patentable. Besides that if another programmer comes up with a very similar thing independently, he should be able to share it freely without getting in trouble. |
| Date | 04:49:25, November 09, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the The Freedom To Choose Bill. |
| Message | Hmmm, so by your logic on number two, once technology advances enough I should have the right to access your thoughts? |
| Date | 05:11:27, November 09, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the The Freedom To Choose Bill. |
| Message | In a perfect world where people could be trusted, I personally would'nt care if people did, but there is a difference between a computer program an a sentient mind. |
| Date | 05:45:43, November 09, 2007 CET | From | Independence Coalition | To | Debating the The Freedom To Choose Bill. |
| Message | But how is a computer program different from any other piece of property that can be owned? The DSP supports people being in control of the means of production but the fruits of their labor? |
| Date | 06:23:18, November 09, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the The Freedom To Choose Bill. |
| Message | A computer program is not a physical thing, and thusly not property in the traditional sense of the word. We support laws in which a person can register a creation, and be payed if a corporation wishes to use it, but also a system in which non-profit groups or individuals can use it for free, or alter it, though in that case they would have to say what program it was originally and give credit to the original creator. |
| Date | 07:07:09, November 09, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the The Freedom To Choose Bill. |
| Message | Too easily corrupted. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 259 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 321 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 19 |
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| Random quote: "It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." - Joseph Goebbels |