Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?

Via [http://slashdot.org Slashdot]: :[http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1753257&from=rss Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?]: “Chris M writes “In a recent CNET article, the mobile phone editor writes about what he thinks would make a perfect phone. Unfortunately, as someone in the comments section points out, much of the technology that is used in this concept phone belongs …

The Truth About Piracy

In The Truth About Piracy Steve Pavlina puts it bluntly: :”’is intellectual property a tool for scarcity thinking, or is it a tool for contribution?”’ For me, it’s the latter. And my biggest fear is that someone takes someone else’s idea, and than monopolizes it. I would claim patents and copyrights in order to avoid …