Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
Macromedia
Presentation on Core Systems
http://cyberseek.com/Coretalk/CoreSystemIntro.PC.zip
http://cyberseek.com/Coretalk/CoreSystemIntro.MAC.zip
Sandy Klausner
Founder, CoreTalk
Mathematics and legal argument MAY set aside the notion that software
should be provided patent protection. This is a conjecture. But just maybe our society would be better off,
if the confusion caused by software patents is removed.
Obviously, the facts of the case may require that the notion of ownership of software evolve. CoreSystem (CoreTalk's Infrastructure architecture) may have an advantage here - but there will have to be some changes (in the advent of this challenge to software patents being successful) to the current CoreTalk business model.
The absence of evidence that a sudden change is about to happen is seen in many forms. It is clear, for example, that an Open Source movement is targeting not simply software but all forms of information. { + }
This movement is building.
Does your business model really depend on third party
ownership of data structures or algorithms? I do not think so. Your
innovations will support commercial transactions and commerce in an age where
mathematics, process models and data structures are considered to be like
natural language. We discussed this two
years ago as you were helping me understand the Cubicon language.
As you have said:
Even
without legal protection, CoreSystem's Design Source model provides a medium
between proprietary and open source software disclosure. This selective
disclosure of iconic software artifacts enables an IP provider a wide spectrum
of choices in the way that others may reuse community resources.
This aspect of CoreSystem is exactly why we call
for the development of the CoreSystem as part of the National Project.
Within the infrastructure concept that you have developed and proposed, an
adequate means is provided to allow commerce to more fully use the Internet as
a means to distribute product and information, not as a means
providing endless jobs for computer programmers.
The task of building computer software systems must
eventually level off and decline as individuals, who are not computer
programmers, take over the control and use of the Internet.
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