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James surowieki does a rather good job of nailing some of the patents/business/scientific contradictions in The Wisdom of Crowds, chapter 8. "The challenge the scientific community faces today is whether the success of western science can survive the growing commercialization of scientific endeavors" -----Original Message----- From: Karl Waclawek [mailto:karl@w...] Sent: 06 June 2005 15:23 To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Another Microsoft XML patent Michael Kay wrote: > No one has a right to sit back and say "that's our territory for the next 25 > years, you're not allowed in". If ideas could be protected like that, > Microsoft and Amazon would not exist, and Seattle would be a poorer place. Totally agree. In addition, if an idea is used by someone after it has been publicized by someone else, that still does not mean that the idea has been stolen! More often than not, ideas are re-invented rather than stolen, and the more obvious a patent is, the easier it is to re-invent. Now, why should someone who puts a lot of effort into his/her work not be allowed to reap the benefits, just because someone else made the same effort earlier? What is so fair about that? Karl ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
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