They don’t seem to like to actually engage others who disagree with them. Either their trackback system is broken, or they blocked my blog, but they won’t let me ping their entries with rebuttals to their posts. I guess it just goes to show that they are like a lot of “policy people.” They want to be able to put their ideas out there without having to defend them in a civil and logical manner. Look at Epstein’s last paper and its wildly inaccurate take on what constitutes open source software. They’re not interested in being corrected, they just want to be right.

You would think that they’d be frothing at the mouth over Intellectual Ventures, a patent cartel specifically created to sue the hell out of research and development upstarts trying to build up products. All of the big guys have funded them. Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, etc. Where is Ross on this? How about DeLong? This represents a fundamental abuse of the patent system because it’s a company designed for the sole purpose of using patents to drain money out of the economy since IV has no R&D; employees at all. They literally produce nothing except lawsuits.

But, again, as they are quick to remind us about all IP. Without the strictest laws humanly possible, it’d all fall apart. No one would produce anything of value. Nothing would be written, drawn, filmed, recorded, research, built, nothing. The only reason that people are interested in art and science is money and would never work at it unless they could make outrageous sums of money. *Looks at average research scientist and artist*. Oh wait, they get paid crap on average compared to your average IP attorney.

You know what would make it a lot easier for IPCentral to be taken seriously by anyone outside of the IP extremist camp? If they would open up comments like TLF and actually engage their critics. A blog with closed trackbacks and comments is nothing more than a very biased news media website.

They don’t seem to like to actually engage others who disagree with them. Either their trackback system is broken, or they blocked my blog, but they won’t let me ping their entries with rebuttals to their posts. I guess it just goes to show that they are like a lot of “policy people.” They want to be able to put their ideas out there without having to defend them in a civil and logical manner. Look at Epstein’s last paper and its wildly inaccurate take on what constitutes open source software. They’re not interested in being corrected, they just want to be right.

You would think that they’d be frothing at the mouth over Intellectual Ventures, a patent cartel specifically created to sue the hell out of research and development upstarts trying to build up products. All of the big guys have funded them. Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, etc. Where is Ross on this? How about DeLong? This represents a fundamental abuse of the patent system because it’s a company designed for the sole purpose of using patents to drain money out of the economy since IV has no R&D employees at all. They literally produce nothing except lawsuits.

But, again, as they are quick to remind us about all IP. Without the strictest laws humanly possible, it’d all fall apart. No one would produce anything of value. Nothing would be written, drawn, filmed, recorded, research, built, nothing. The only reason that people are interested in art and science is money and would never work at it unless they could make outrageous sums of money. *Looks at average research scientist and artist*. Oh wait, they get paid crap on average compared to your average IP attorney.

You know what would make it a lot easier for IPCentral to be taken seriously by anyone outside of the IP extremist camp? If they would open up comments like TLF and actually engage their critics. A blog with closed trackbacks and comments is nothing more than a very biased news media website.