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slayda · 01-02-2008, 03:43 PM

I normally try to stay out of this type of discussion but thought there might be some people who would appreciate a couple of observations.

Our governments who pass the IP copyright laws will, themselves, voluntarily violate the idea of IP when they "steal" information from other governments. This is typically called "Intelligence Collection" and is generally accepted as a "given" by the other governments who try to protect themselves from such theft, there being no "higher" authority to whom thay may appeal.
Some years ago when I worked for a chemical production company, my entire job consisted in trying to find a chemical formula, enough different from a patented formula, that would achieve the same general result but would not legally violate the patent. Of course we started with the original patent and made variants from that. (During my tenure we were not successful.)

So much for the way the governments and large corporations feel about IP.

01-02-2008, 03:43 PM	#274
slayda Retired & reading more! Posts: 2,764 Karma: 1884247 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: North Alabama, USA Device: Kindle 1, iPad Air 2, iPhone 6S+, Kobo Aura One	Two observations re. IP I normally try to stay out of this type of discussion but thought there might be some people who would appreciate a couple of observations. Our governments who pass the IP copyright laws will, themselves, voluntarily violate the idea of IP when they "steal" information from other governments. This is typically called "Intelligence Collection" and is generally accepted as a "given" by the other governments who try to protect themselves from such theft, there being no "higher" authority to whom thay may appeal. Some years ago when I worked for a chemical production company, my entire job consisted in trying to find a chemical formula, enough different from a patented formula, that would achieve the same general result but would not legally violate the patent. Of course we started with the original patent and made variants from that. (During my tenure we were not successful.) So much for the way the governments and large corporations feel about IP.