From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4913 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Bartels Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: patenting colimits? Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:24:13 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: Toby Bartels NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243873597 20422 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2009 16:26:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:26:37 +0000 (UTC) To: David Espinosa , Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Mon Jun 01 18:26:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MBALG-0005Xk-TU for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:26:31 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MB9dj-0003kM-31 for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:41:31 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4913 Archived-At: David Espinosa wrote in part: >We seem to be more excited about patents than categories! I guess opinions >are cheaper than theorems... Of course; it's a matter of convenience, not excitement. >I'd say that citation is the academic form of currency. Here's a >dictionary: >Academia: Academics get quite upset if you use their ideas without citing >them. >Industry: Companies sue you if you use their patents without paying them. >Academia: You can publish improvements to someone's basic idea. >Industry: You can patent improvements to someone's basic idea. Here's what you missed: Academia: Academics can freely use ideas if they cite them, and nobody minds if they come up with idea independently. Industry: Companies must pay to use patented ideas, even if they come up with the idea indpendently, at whatever rate (possibly prohibitive) set by the owner of the patent. --Toby [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]