Comments on: Do you want faster horses or do you want unicorns? http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/ opening walled gardens Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:30:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: David F. Flanders http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-569 David F. Flanders Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:30:01 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-569 example of where people make even more money without the copyright protectionism in place: http://techdirt.com/articles/20091217/1834337418.shtml example of where people make even more money without the copyright protectionism in place: http://techdirt.com/articles/20091217/1834337418.shtml

]]> By: David F. Flanders http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-568 David F. Flanders Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:29:30 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-568 example of where people make even more money without the copyright protecitonaism in place: http://techdirt.com/articles/20091217/1834337418.shtml example of where people make even more money without the copyright protecitonaism in place: http://techdirt.com/articles/20091217/1834337418.shtml

]]> By: Paul http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-567 Paul Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:57:39 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-567 How about just allowing to inventors freedom to copy and develop but only grant the originator power to claim royalties? Fair to the originator and would free up development. How about just allowing to inventors freedom to copy and develop but only grant the originator power to claim royalties?

Fair to the originator and would free up development.

]]> By: David F. Flanders http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-566 David F. Flanders Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:25:37 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-566 Interesting backlog of patents building up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/07/change-your-life-backlog-oliver-burkeman Interesting backlog of patents building up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/07/change-your-life-backlog-oliver-burkeman

]]> By: Martin http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-471 Martin Fri, 22 May 2009 19:54:43 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-471 Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution solves this problem very neatly: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" Was has been distorted is the concept of "limited times". Recent copyright, patent and trademark changes (whether to bring the US in alignment with global initiatives or to "protect the Mouse") have made "limited" extend - particularly for copyright - well beyond the needs of the original writers/inventors! Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution solves this problem very neatly: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;”

Was has been distorted is the concept of “limited times”. Recent copyright, patent and trademark changes (whether to bring the US in alignment with global initiatives or to “protect the Mouse”) have made “limited” extend – particularly for copyright – well beyond the needs of the original writers/inventors!

]]> By: dfflanders http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-423 dfflanders Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:50 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-423 comment from twittersphere http://twitter.com/zbeauvais/status/1100567740 comment from twittersphere http://twitter.com/zbeauvais/status/1100567740

]]> By: Nathan Gilmer http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-406 Nathan Gilmer Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:20:38 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-406 A couple questions just for my own curiosity. Are you in favor of abolishing all copyright? or simply that having to do with technology e.g. code? I think you may have already answered this in your last comment, but do you think these things should be public or only available to those in academia for learning purposes? It seems to me like it would be hard to build an internet based company if anyone can take what you have created and use it themselves. Sure, it would be great to make this stuff simply for the betterment of society, but the bills have to be paid somehow. I think I agree with you but I am pretty ignorant on this topic so please forgive me if my questions aren't properly grounded. A couple questions just for my own curiosity.
Are you in favor of abolishing all copyright? or simply that having to do with technology e.g. code?
I think you may have already answered this in your last comment, but do you think these things should be public or only available to those in academia for learning purposes? It seems to me like it would be hard to build an internet based company if anyone can take what you have created and use it themselves. Sure, it would be great to make this stuff simply for the betterment of society, but the bills have to be paid somehow.
I think I agree with you but I am pretty ignorant on this topic so please forgive me if my questions aren’t properly grounded.

]]> By: Jim Downing http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-405 Jim Downing Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:52:52 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-405 Copyright and intellectual property were designed to protect inventors in order to encourage invention. I don't see that _aim_ as being inappropriate or less relevant now, but it's quite clear that the implementation we have today is rather too focused on protectionism rather than reward. "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." - Hal Abelson Copyright and intellectual property were designed to protect inventors in order to encourage invention. I don’t see that _aim_ as being inappropriate or less relevant now, but it’s quite clear that the implementation we have today is rather too focused on protectionism rather than reward.

“If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.”
– Hal Abelson

]]> By: dfflanders http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-404 dfflanders Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:29:39 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-404 Indeed I was perhaps a bit hasty to not qualify that innovation must be free in certain domains, such as Academia. In the same way that students can photocopy pages out of a book to help innovate their minds so should Academic developers be able to copy code from any application so greater innovation can occur. Indeed I was perhaps a bit hasty to not qualify that innovation must be free in certain domains, such as Academia. In the same way that students can photocopy pages out of a book to help innovate their minds so should Academic developers be able to copy code from any application so greater innovation can occur.

]]> By: Fred Flanders http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/do-you-want-faster-horses-or-do-you-want-unicorns/#comment-403 Fred Flanders Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:14:34 +0000 http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-403 Sounds like monetary blasphemy to me. Who will PAY for this?? Sounds like monetary blasphemy to me. Who will PAY for this??

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