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Slide 1
Software Patents' Threats
By : Mahmoud Fawzy
How everything begun ?!
Copyrights laws:Protect authors' rights
Patents:Protect inventors rights
Trademark laws:Assure that people know what they are buying !
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Are copyrights good ?
Copyrights promote creativity.
Copyrights doesn't endorse monopoly.
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Are Patents good ?
Patents sacrifices some freedom for the sack of publishing ideas.
Patents promote creativity as well !
Patents promote competition.
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Intellectual Property what is that ?!
In 1967 the WIPO* was founded.
.... Then in time gigantic enterprise entities started steering the wheel of Intellectual Property .
Now Intellectual Property is a mixture of Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks
It can be regarded as a title of monopoly !
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* WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organiztion .. following the UN
So how can Software patents be bad ?
The over generalization of the term Intellectual Property.
Applying Patents to software will ultimately restrict our freedom.
There will be NOTHING called alternatives !
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The Car analogy !
What if we bought a gorgeous Porsche?
What if Porsche decided to restrict who rides with us ?
What if Porsche also decided on which roads should this car operate ?
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Image by yewenyi from flicker.com
The Car analogy !
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We Would Rather NOT !
Questions ?!
Thank You !
Links and attribution
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Car analogy main idea by Tal Schechter
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-car-analogy
Porcshe car photo by yewenyi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yewenyi/124131510/
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