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Bill: The Patenting of Software Techniques
Details
Status[?]: passed
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: August 2039
Description[?]:
This bill intends to protect intellectual property. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current:
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Proposed: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the The Patenting of Software Techniques |
Message | Aye! |
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Message | No! |
Date | not recorded | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the The Patenting of Software Techniques |
Message | I'm not completely sure I understand this bill. What would qualify as a "technique"? Are we talking about programming languages? Or little tricks that programmers use? Even though the FMP is a strong believer in intellectual property, we don't feel like we can support this bill. At least not if we understand it correctly. |
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Message | ooc: I didn't right the article the game creator did. I wrote the description. But to answer your question we are talking programming languages. |
Date | not recorded | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the The Patenting of Software Techniques |
Message | Government-enforced monopolies on the usage of what amounts to a particular string of numbers strikes us as not only unjust, but fundamentally silly. |
Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the The Patenting of Software Techniques |
Message | "Government-enforced monopolies " Where? |
Date | not recorded | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the The Patenting of Software Techniques |
Message | After further consideration, the FMP has decided to support this bill. |
Date | not recorded | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the The Patenting of Software Techniques |
Message | A patent is entirely a creation of the state. What it says is that the government will enforce a monopoly on the use of some thing - in this case, a particular string of commands in some computer language - for a particular firm for some number of years. Should anyone else independently come up with a similar string of commands or derive some new and different application involving some of them, the first company can have the state enforce huge penalties against those 'offenders'. That's a government-enforced monopoly if anything is. And it is an unnecessary and unjust state intrusion into the market, serving mainly to protect the rich and stifle innovation. |
Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the The Patenting of Software Techniques |
Message | A patent protects an individual right over his invention. In the communist era most workers that had developed an innovation that reduced the work time would just keep it to themselfs because they would get nothing in return. This slowed research and efficiency. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||
yes | Total Seats: 71 | ||
no | Total Seats: 66 | ||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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