Re: Patents

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We don't need to encourage inventors to publish descriptions of their
inventions.  There are enough incentives already in place.  Money,
fame, good will and more money are good incentives to make known the
existence of an invention.  And that's all we need.  We don't have to
have every invention spelled out for us.  It would be enough just to
be inspired by an idea.  I don't feel like I need the government's
"help" in this area.

If it turns out that I am wrong and we do need the government to
encourage publication of inventions, there are better systems which we
can apply to the problem than the present patent system.

Daniel Guilderson
ryan@cs.umb.edu

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