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Bill: Bill on safe software
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republican Socialist Party
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: April 2486
Description[?]:
| bill to protect our countrys software writers |
Proposals
Article 1
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 | 16:40:26, November 14, 2007 CET | From | Computational Intellect Project | To | Debating the Bill on safe software |
| Message | We're not sure how many of you are aware, but software patents are NOT software copyrights. Software patents are restrictive patents that can be applied to common designs in software; for example, software patents at the time of the invention of the first personal computer would have been disastrous. The creators could have patented the idea of an operating system. Furthermore, they could have patented the fact that the operating system starts up by accessing boot instructions located at a certain locations on a disk. In fact, a software method in which a processor multitasks would be patented with a software patent. Furthermore, for those of you familiar with any sort of programming, software patents would mean that a person could write a very simple method (a block of code assigned to a specific keyword in a program, for those of you not), and then get a software patent, and then people could not do anything similar to that method or use it without the author's permission, and royalties would be paid. The price of software would rise exponentially at an infinite rate. These are not copyrights, these are not hardware patents, but these are overrestrictive patents of regulation that seriously hinder all progress in technological development. Yet we wonder why we have few computer programmers here in Barmenistan... (OOC: Software patents do not exist in real life, for good reason) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 106 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 193 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 126 |
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