From - Thu Apr 17 14:32:54 2003 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: carl@andisplanet.com Received: from pmx01.admiral.ne.jp (pmx01.admiral.ne.jp [219.118.200.6]) by andisplanet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id A67FE91102 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:28:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32376 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2003 09:03:01 +0900 X-ASJ-Track-ID: <20030323000301.32376.qmail@pmx01.admiral.ne.jp> Received: from eatkyo151134.adsl.ppp.infoweb.ne.jp (HELO localhost.localdomain) (218.217.133.134) by pmx01.admiral.ne.jp with SMTP; 23 Mar 2003 09:03:01 +0900 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:03:09 +0900 From: Tosiyasu L.Kunii To: Carl Vilbrandt Cc: tosi@kunii.com, discuss@ggpl.org Subject: Re: Impact of the patent trend Message-Id: <20030323090309.419c8169.tosi@kunii.com> In-Reply-To: <3E7C9C9F.60609@ggpl.org> References: <3E7C9C9F.60609@ggpl.org> Reply-To: tosi@kunii.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Professor Vilbrandt, As of April 1, 2003 my full time affiliation is ITI of KIT as listed below. How is Dali 2003? Is it cancelled? Anyway, it seems U Aizu situations are getting quite down. It is quite easy to make things down, and hence I have been appreciating your and your family's never bending noble mind and efforts. Regards, Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Dr.Sc., Fellow of IEEE Professor and Director IT Institute Kanazawa Institute of Technology 1-15-13 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0001 Japan Phone +81-3-5410-5280 FAX +81-3-5410-3056 e-mail: tosi@kunii.com Home Page: http://www.kunii.com/ On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 02:25:51 +0900 Carl Vilbrandt wrote: > > 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. > > > >