Comments on: China passes US in IT race http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7288 p2pnet.net - reader powered Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:58:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7288#comment-26292 Reader's Write Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:31:06 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7288#comment-26292 Why is this a suprise or even noteworthy? It is the direction that the US has been headed in with all this IP protection. At this early a date is the only suprise. The roping off of IP in both applications and ideas can only lead here. You can't borrow from a previous idea, you can't use a patented idea, that means either you got to discover a new way to do it or abandon the idea completely. All new inventions are based on old work. Now that old work never reaches the public domain, there is nothing to work with to allow new inventions. Instead those countries that don't hold the reigns so tight on patents find that they are inventing and having need of newer technology to continue. The US forgets that it was once in the same place as China. It did not honor copyrights from foriegn countries and had an aboundance of works that were literally ripped off from prior works. Now that corporations have established themselves at the top of the food chain, all has changed. No need to weep that they follow in the same footsteps as those before them. No one can read the writing on the wall to decipher that others have stood at this doorstep before them. Alas, they also can not see where that footstep leads once again. What a shame. Why is this a suprise or even noteworthy? It is the direction that the US has been headed in with all this IP protection. At this early a date is the only suprise. The roping off of IP in both applications and ideas can only lead here. You can’t borrow from a previous idea, you can’t use a patented idea, that means either you got to discover a new way to do it or abandon the idea completely.

All new inventions are based on old work. Now that old work never reaches the public domain, there is nothing to work with to allow new inventions. Instead those countries that don’t hold the reigns so tight on patents find that they are inventing and having need of newer technology to continue.

The US forgets that it was once in the same place as China. It did not honor copyrights from foriegn countries and had an aboundance of works that were literally ripped off from prior works. Now that corporations have established themselves at the top of the food chain, all has changed.

No need to weep that they follow in the same footsteps as those before them. No one can read the writing on the wall to decipher that others have stood at this doorstep before them. Alas, they also can not see where that footstep leads once again. What a shame.

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