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| Dan123456:
--- Quote from: richnormand on November 27, 2023, 02:36:58 am --- "Should all information be freely available to everyone?" OK, I'll bite: This is an electronics forum... let's start by cleaning our own room. It's called "right to repair". Just getting the needed information to do that seems to be hard enough from the companies, never mind all the rest of society ..... --- End quote --- Exactly! This was one of the reasons why I brought this question up here :) I figured there would be lots of right to repair people along with a bunch of maker/hacker people here who probably think “yes”, along with a bunch of people in other industries who might feel strongly against it and might have some very compelling arguments :) While I don’t think we will solve the worlds problems in an EE forum, I figured lots of people here would have good, well thought out arguments for or against :) |
| Sredni:
No. The Jurassic Park principle. |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on November 26, 2023, 06:11:53 pm ---In a near-perfect world, it would be great. Just think of the amount of time saved as we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time we go to do a task. If someone works out a better way to do something, that way gets adopted. --- End quote --- Yes because of this. Watch some Monroe videos, you'll see for example, 5 very different EV motor designs with one of them being far superior (lighter, more efficient). If all companies could use the superior design, the world would be better off. The difficult or impossible problem is how to license that information on a global scale, and assign a reasonable cost for its use. |
| TimFox:
--- Quote from: Buriedcode on November 26, 2023, 09:07:46 pm ---Long answer: ..... b) Trade secrets, patents were meant to allow people of "reasonable education" to recreate stuff but in reality are designed to prevent that. But providing access to all trade secrets will destabilise many economies. ..... --- End quote --- In US IP law, "patents" are granted for a limited time, but only if the information "taught" in the patent application is sufficient for "one skilled in the art" to replicate the invention; they are enforceable by the courts, but the information has already been published since patents are public records. "Trade secrets" really have no protection past NDAs and similar private contractual provisions, and cannot be enforced in court (although one can sue the leaker for violation of contract). |
| mike449:
The answer is easy: all information should be available to good guys, and not available to bad guys. The hard part is to enforce the separation between the two groups. Note that governments are not necessarily always the good guys. |
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