Date: 2003/03/23 09:02
From: Carl Vilbrandt <carl@ggpl.org>
To: discuss@ggpl.org
Organis orgisational design relationship to current patent laws.
Richard Stallman states that there is no way to deal with patents they
cost money to get that the free source groups do not have. I propose
an embrace and or a containment approach to deal with patents. The
Organis plan must deal with the patent issue.
The embrace approach was taken by Richard Stallman using the copyright
to create a copyleft. Carl S could get funding to patent Organis to
create a free source patent from the "global org" he is proposing the
organis type businesses plan to.
However the use of the patent is virual and you are free to use this
patent under the GGPL agreement and any other patents related to this
patent must all so be released under GGPL agreement. What Carl is
trying to do is get this "global org" (that has as great deal of global
IT resources) to buy in on the idea of investing in people to create a
decentralized computational farms in Japan.
The containment of patents is another approach to stay within the
copyright and academic freedom where we try to use the copyright or the
idea to cover or block the patent process. Patents are covered by a
new free source agreement that states if you use the idea/copyright you
may feel implementate the idea, but you may not patent it. Patents are
blocked by publication of research in journals and collaboration in
groups which makes the ideas and proofs of the idea
is public and no one person can claim ownership.
Greater GPL includes patents and digital ethics. :-))
Idea to Invention <http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/invention/index.en.html>
http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/invention/index.en.html
Invention is only implementation or proof of an idea.
Abstract ideas like mathematical algorithms, mental processes and or
calculations are not patent-able, and it really does not make any
difference whether I run them in my head, with pencil and paper or with
the normal tool of today the computer. The economic rationale behind not
granting patents on thoughts are that Abstract ideas are because they
are produced without experimentation cost, applicable to an infinite
range of problems, and replicated at zero cost with no overhead to which
patent license fees could be added. The division of the extra cost of
patents by the marginal cost (and long-term ideal price) of information
or product services is a division by zero. The cost of replication of
digital information or the digital creation of abstract ideas is so
small it does not lead to any reasonable amount of economic value even
on global scale, because the overhead to collect such a large number of
small payments becomes greater than their value and division by less
that Zero results in loss. The deal between the inventor and the public,
characterized as "monopoly on commercial implementation in return for
disclosure of idea", in the digital world this becomes absurd: since
between the idea and the application there is no invention. Clearly in
the digital world of interactive design and simulations; inventions
become no more that the A to D transformation of ideas into matter with
little or no risk involved.
Moreover if one looks closely at the current economic rationale for
granting patents is actually based on the risk of investment the
implementation of an ideas into useful products that provide services
that can generate income. The economic rationale has never really been
about the disclosure of an idea its self. "Ideas are a dime a dozen" is
and often hear phrase. Do you have the financial resources to turn them
into matter, receive patents or copyrights, advertise and access a
channel of distribution. The latter three requirements for financial
resource hence investment capital therefore the stock market has been
under the inefficient monopoly of large corporations, but the
exponational growth of digital technologies providing the low cost
broadcasting using Internet and ognisation of virtual networked
organizations combined with the GPL agreement is dissolving that
monopoly as witnesses by the GNU Linux project.
The case were general digital devices / computers, which are non legal
entities, on a P2P network using neural nets processing, cellular
simulation and or genetic algorithms can not only generate abstract
ideas, but apply them to infinite range of problems and even implement
solutions by creating a singular object / "one off" for a specific set
of conditions using 3D printers is very interesting. The economic
rationale in the case above for applying current patent laws for a non
legal entities of course becomes some what absurd. It might be possible
that patents and or copyrights could be given to a Public Utility
District PUD a legal entity created by a group of owners of the P2P
networked equipment on which the digital generated idea and its
implementation emerged from.
It is clear that development of advance CAD / Synthetic Digital
Processes SDP and simulation will not only create abstract ideas but
remove the risk of investment in the implementation of the idea to
provide useful object or services. The analog replication of digital
objects will happen on demand. Under this type digital paradigm vendors
become providers of digital resources and products become digital
services. The above digital processes and their analog replication
will greatly diminish the economic rationale for venture capital,
investment in stocks and the stock market.
The current trend of merging business, governmental and educational
organizations functions will continue at a faster rate as the
accelerating returns of digital evolution continues and businesses are
transform into digital based service structures that must have rationale
other than profit for services to survive. Governmental and business
entities to survive global competition must incorporate both global
openness, transparent transactions (the eyes of the many) and
accountability, because of the freedom of information stemming for the
new digital based informational structures internet require this. The
proposed Organis digital based business structures and Greater Good
Public Licenses agreement incorporate all three of these requirements
and is one of the solutions for competing in the global market place.