From - Thu Apr 17 14:32:55 2003 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: carl@andisplanet.com Received: from ggpl.org (drgaila.u-aizu.ac.jp [163.143.133.123]) by andisplanet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88455910E8 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:51:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E7C9C9F.60609@ggpl.org> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 02:25:51 +0900 From: Carl Vilbrandt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: discuss@ggpl.org Subject: Impact of the patent trend Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Impact of the patent trend / on the other side so to speak . The trend you speak of is also going the wrong way not only for educational enities, but also for large corporations who out of the need to be globaly competive must become educational institutions and spend large sums of finical resources on the education of their workers because of the rate of change of accelerating evloutionary returns of digital technologies. Large corporations also lead universities in R&D. The R&D capabilites of all but a few universities in the states fall far below the capabilties of large corporations. Large corporations actually have replace or replicate the fuctions of univerisites. They have created the problem by haveing interlocking patent agreements that has lock out universities so they don't have a source of human resources aviable to them. Answer try to take over the facilities, faculity and students of universities and force them to work under there IP to be able to get an education. In the US I had large companies both US and Japanese threating not to hire any students coming from our comunity collage if we don't train them specifically to work on their machines. They offered each one million if we did. However the public pays 20 million a year. Most of the teachers were looking at the money and suggested we take it and do what we want anyway..... It was sad. The conflict between the needs of education and training people in skills that means they can only find work in a very large company. BTW is was HP and Sony..... My position against this move cost me work at the collage. Now I am faced with the same here. I just had two of my graduate student taken from my by Dr Wei who has recive grants of a million dollars a year for five years and could offer them scholarships and living stypends. However the best programer whos skills are not well knowen refused to go with Dr. Wei. Dr. Wei is in fact a very poor manager and does not have the capability to compete in the medical field against very large companies or he would be working for them. However the current results are very chilling the lab has been change into over 50 very small cubes with high walls. Not for students, but for programers, not for researchers but project managers..... I believe the current trend of merging business, governmental and educational organizations functions will continue at a faster rate as the accelerating returns of digital evolution continues and businesses are transform into digital based service structures that must have rationale other than profit for services to survive. Governmental educational and business entities to survive global competition must incorporate both global openness, transparent transactions (the eyes of the many) and accountability, because of the freedom of information stemming for the new digital based informational structures internet require this. The proposed Organis digital based business structures and Greater Good Public Licenses agreement incorporate all three of these requirements and is one of the solutions for competing in the global market place. Japan is following the US because it feels it has little choice...because of the WTO and being locked out of high technology..... however at the same time they have showen support for free source projects. If we can create a good understand able free choice plan and show present them with a free choice it could make a difference.