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OpenGL Floating Point Textures No Longer Encumbered By Patents, Enabled In Mesa
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Patents are a violation of property rights. They are other people using the gun of the state to threaten you not to use your own mind, your own body or your own property (eg your computer) how you see fit.
Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that patents are property (or intellectual property, as they are often called). Patents are anti-property. As long as patent law exists, your freedom to innovate, act and use your property how you wish, will be curtailed.
Property (real property) came about as a way of dealing with scarce resources. e.g. if only one fish has been caught from the river, but there are 50 people in the village nearby the river, who should have the right to decide what happens to that fish? Under a system of property rights, we'd say that the person who caught the fish has the right to decide what happens to it.
Ideas and patterns are not scarce. If someone comes up with a good idea (eg how to redesign a fishing rod to make it more efficient), that idea can be copied by the other 49 people in a village at near-zero cost. They can speak that idea to one another or even just observe the idea with their senses. Those other villagers can then adjust their property (their physical fishing rods) to improve them as per this new idea. Patents are a means to try and make that idea of how to improve the rod scarce. It is a means to slow down progress and give benefit to 1 at the expensive of the many.
Please reject all patent laws. Patents are a very bad idea. When you have a good idea, there are plenty of methods of monetizing it which do not require state-violence (or threats of) to be inflicted on your fellow man.
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Originally posted by nanonyme View PostYou can't really keep things trade secrets in software industry unless you keep it locked up in an inaccessible server. Everything gets reverse engineered sooner or later
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostWhy should algorithms be not patentable?
Originally posted by starshipeleven View Postremoving patents at all would mean that everything would become a closely-guarded trade secret, which is much worse for innovation.Last edited by pal666; 18 June 2018, 07:56 AM.
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Originally posted by kpedersen View PostCould Khronos / OpenGL / Vulkan protect itself from this in future? Something in the license stating that extensions to OpenGL cannot be patent-able.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostThe issue is the lenght of the patent, 20 years is an eternity, still less insane bs than copyright that is like a century, but removing patents at all would mean that everything would become a closely-guarded trade secret, which is much worse for innovation.
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Mesa should be patent-free now. The only other known involved patent was the S3TC one, also expired recently (and S3TC was as well integrated in mesa, no more need for the external library).
GIF, MP3, MPEG2 also expired some time ago...
What's next? MPEG4?
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