Hello Chandran,
On 11/08/2010 11:13 PM, Chandran wrote:
[...snip...]
"Monetising IP" - means -> How to get money from intellectual property? I
am sorry to say this, to me it sounds much like " A seminar on how to
become a patent troll?"
In Free software and GNU/Linux there is no room from Intellectual
property. I am sorry, you have posted it to a **wrong** list :-)
Dear all,
Every member in this list is an intellect. But members wanted to deliver
their intellects to the society without any consideration. In order to
protect your intellect[other than software], I am inclined to reply as
follows.
The post is not intended only for Software. It is an information for all
streams. Infact in my office Majority of the computer is running on Ubuntu
for the past one year. I have been promoting Opensource software among my
professional community. This is an information to pass it on to others who
are likely ot be benefitted. If you feel this information is leading to
patent troll. I am sorry you are misconcieved this information.
Intellectual Property rights includes Patents, Trademark, Copyright,
Design, Geographical Indications and Integrated Circuits layout protection.
Even your blog is copyrighted,*Copyright © 2007-2010 Arun's blog. Sorry to
mention personally. Our Patent Act is not granting patents to software
perse. So Source codes are protected under Copyright. Even when you want to
promote your opensource software, you need a trademark[brand name]. You
have to keep that brand name proctected in order to promote your software.
Members in the list will also develop integrated circuits which can be
protected. Designs which you are creating using opensource software is
protected under copyright and if it is a industrial design it can be
protected under Designs Act.Intellectual property is not only Patents.
Please look at the world with broad perspective. I have seen many people
nowadays using open source software for their business/profession. That
doesn't mean that they are not entitled to protect their
products/designs/logo.*
In that paragraph above I see 7 mentions of the word 'protect' or variations
thereof. I don't see anything about "Value-enhancement, not just
Value-protection" ...so please do clarify how do you propose on using all the
kinds of IP protection you listed above to go "... beyond the conventional
defensive deployment of IP ..." and to "... transforms it from a cost-centre to
a profit-centre." ?
In case you missed the point, let me spell it out for you -- We in the
opensource community are *not* against things like copyright -- In fact, we are
very vocal about the who does or does not have the right-to-copy. What we find
disgusting though is treating software as 'property' and using ^Intellectual
Property^ as means to profit from.
People in the software business /ideally/ ought to monetize on software and
services around it instead of monetizing IP.
cheers,
- steve
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