On Oct 1, 2011, at 11:05 PM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote:
are NOT good businessmen. So, it is really unfair to independent inventors,
if the law protects only those who BOTH invent and commercialize. Inventors
I quote from the Constitution of the United States:
To promote the Progress of Science
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of jbk
On 10/01/2011 09:14 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Anybody have any more information, speculation, rumors, or just random
comments to say?
Here is what I googled:
On 10/01/2011 11:05 PM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote:
In some sense, the existence of patent troll is premised on the fact that
different people have different talents. Some people are good at inventing,
while some people are good at doing business. Many times, good inventors
are NOT good
On Oct 2, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
(I've only just now read the last several posts, after already composing a
message, because the topic had changed and thus the thread changed in my
mail reader. I'm not piling on, but am glad to hear the strong support for
The open source community cannot benefit from this. Nobody can, except
for patent trolls.
Your fellows continue to do everything they possibly can to ensure that
only patent trolls
benefit from patent law. Even mega-corporations like Google and Samsung
with massive
fiscal resources and huge
HYC,
You've made some pretty analogies. Let me expand upon your latest.
Electricity in the home is a tool. Like any tool, and like patents, it can be
used correctly or it can be abused. Do you know what we do to people who abuse
tools to harm people? We incarcerate the offenders.
Rich Braun wrote:
ZFS kernel module for Linux is not an Oracle/Sun-sponsored product, so far
as I can tell. Lawrence Livermore Labs appears to be the current sponsor (see
zfsonlinux.org) of the Linux upstream. A firm in India called KQ Infotech
pioneered this port but then got bought out by
Glad to see the spirited discussion on software patents.
If you want to listen to a decent investigative report on how the patent
system in general (not specific to software patents) is broken, and
learn more about how troll companies operate, check out:
When Patents Attack!
I call BS on the whole idea of prior art.
It's everywhere and patents are issued that defy the rules.
There is no art in the system.
Ask a real patent attorney what he thinks.
See the poster child
http://www.1201tuesday.com/1201_tuesday/2010/10/poster-child.html
If this is a valid patent;
