Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Universities Patenting More Student Ideas
[...]
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/03/2327255
So let me get this straight, the /inventor/ does not "own" his own idea?
And people wonder why I'm so opposed to patents.
This proves conclusively that "patents" have zero to do with invention,
it is purely a case of who walks through the patent office door, with a
big wad of cash, first.
150 years after the end of the California Gold Rush, certain elements of
society are still behaving like a bunch of toothless; rabid prospectors,
murderously rushing towards that glint of gold in the rock face, without
regard for anything but their own greed. Mankind may have built empires;
walked on the moon; and invented the computer, but in terms of morality,
it seems apparent that some of us will never evolve beyond the mentality
of Neanderthals.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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