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Bill: The Patenting of Software Techniques

Details

Submitted by[?]: removed

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

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

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MessageAye!

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MessageNo!

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FromFree Market Party
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MessageI'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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Messageooc: I didn't right the article the game creator did. I wrote the description. But to answer your question we are talking programming languages.

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FromKundrati Revolutionary Movement
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MessageGovernment-enforced monopolies on the usage of what amounts to a particular string of numbers strikes us as not only unjust, but fundamentally silly.

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Message"Government-enforced monopolies " Where?

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FromFree Market Party
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MessageAfter further consideration, the FMP has decided to support this bill.

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FromKundrati Revolutionary Movement
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MessageA 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.

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MessageA 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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