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An Intellectual Poverty Law
Upon my research on 18th and early 19th century England, I stumbled upon a process that was taking place from the 16th to the 19th century in rural England. It’s enclosure. Basically, the medieval system is, that a village has, in addition to the fields of the individual farmers, a large commons, where all the…
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An Intellectual Poverty Law
Upon my research on 18th and early 19th century England, I stumbled upon a process that was taking place from the 16th to the 19th century in rural England. It’s enclosure. Basically, the medieval system is, that a village has, in addition to the fields of the individual farmers, a large commons, where all the…
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Lies, Damned Lies and Propaganda
Propaganda trumps scientific evidence everytime. Face it, there is nothing like propaganda, backed by some hearsay evidence and a few vivid examples. And science cannot offer anything to counter that. It used to be “Statistics” in that title-phrase, but that’s not true anymore, if it ever was. You don’t need statistics to make people believe…
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The “Moby Dick Support Device”
BitOBear wrote on Groklaw As a side thought, a device doesn’t lose its nature when applied to a particular purpose. If I buy a bookshelf and put nothing on it, or only put a single copy of Moby Dick, or I burden it down exclusively with copies of Moby Dick, it doesn’t become a “moby…
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Ways out of Darkness – Abolishing Patents
I not only wrote a lot on copyrights, but also on patents: A (Patent-)Law to promote the welfare of Lawyers Rent-seeking behaviour among patent lawyers. Patents kill Innovation The patent-system achieves in nearly all cases the opposite of what it was supposed to. Intellectual “Property” and other contradictions Rhetoric of proponents of monopolies. Sue Everyone…
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A (Patent-)Law to promote the welfare of Lawyers
I already wrote about it, on how Patents kill Innovation. If you’re looking for more background on some of the assertions in this text, they’re explained there. Right now the german Bundesgerichtshof decided that it would be a good idea to allow software Patents, even if the European Patent Treaty says in Article 52 “The…