[Asterisk-Users] g.729 - licenses and opinions

[Joseph Finley]

I think you "patent haters" are looking at the negative aspect only.
Remember, that competition drives innovation.  If everyone used the same
product there would be no incentive to develop anything new or along the
same lines, where's reward to innovate if there is no incentive, why do it?
Incentive being the $$ for your work.  This thread could go further into
music, art, publications, pharmaceuticals, etc.  I don't believe in
monopolies, but it would lead to an intellectual monopoly thus a stagnant
never changing technology.  I know the concept will be hard to understand
for some.  Don't flame, just understand the other side.


Joe




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From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Walt Reed
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:32 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] g.729 - licenses and opinions


On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:58:47PM -0500, Steven Critchfield said:
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 14:45, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> > Steven Critchfield [critch at basesys.com] wrote:
> > > So while I think it is important, I
> > > also can't seem to draw a reasonable line. 24 months in most 
> > > software isn't enough time from day 0 to make any reward for the 
> > > work, at least not monetarily. What software project out there do 
> > > you know had a major roll out sufficiently under 24 months from 
> > > beginning of programming to have paid the programming staff off 
> > > after say 1 year past the initial 24 months?
> > >
> > Software patents encourage monopoly rather than freedom.  Idiots 
> > write a line of code and then feel that they've "invented" 
> > something.
> 
> Temporary monopoly. Of course with the current time limits, it might 
> as well be permanent since the techniques will be mostly useless by 
> the time they are free.

And don't forget that with patents, it actually encourages splintering of
technologies and hinders compatability. It happens all around us - GSM vs
CDMA, GIF/PNG/JPEG, MPeg/OGG/WMA, etc. With software patents, the only
benefit is to the patent holder. Users just get screwed.
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