I blogged about it here http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/software-patents.html
Though I think GigaOm nailed it when they wrote "Verizon can't make the Internet go away with a patent lawsuit". http://gigaom.com/2007/04/08/voip-patent-mess/ Cheers, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +1-917-207-3420 Mb +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Bosch > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:23 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Verizon-Vonage Lawsuit > > Salvatore Giudice wrote: > > BTW, the main problem with these patents is that they tend to lower the > rate > > of adoption for new standards. Nothing kills a standard quicker than when > > someone patents it. > > > > For example, someone out there even has a patent on ENUM: > > > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20060020713.html?highlight=enum&stemmin g=o > n > > > > It made me mad that he beat me to it. Roflol... Regardless, this won't > help > > with ENUM adoption. > > > > Any joker with about $6k per patent and some time on his hands to monitor > > emerging standards can easily generate some patent entertainment for > > themselves at the expense of others... > > > > So, the question of the day is: "Have you thought about patenting > something > > today?" > > > > It's easy. I just got a new idea while writing this for an ENUM related > > patent that I may pursue at some point... =) > > The US patent system is totally broken. It started with lobbying efforts > to relax the applicability rules for patents for short-term gain. In the > long term, it's going to do big damage to American competitiveness. > > And that's the sad thing about this. It discourages actual innovation > (despite Wall Street protests to the contrary). If everytime you want to > build on somebody else's work you have to build a skein of licencing > agreements, you start to ask yourself, "why should I bother?" More and > more companies are answering that one with "We shouldn't" -- there's > enough action to be had in other parts of the world, where the > conditions are much less onerous. > > Another example of that kind of short-sighted thinking is what happened > to the US crypto business when all the export controls were brought in. > (A lot of damage was done in exchange for no demonstrable security benefit.) > > Obviously, a market that big and moneyed isn't going to be ignored: how > can it be? But what used to be a no-brainer isn't so obvious anymore -- > staying out of the US market is a serious option where it wasn't before, > and that just leads to further Balkanization. > > It's fitting that an open source product like Asterisk is helping keep > the US in the game. > > -Stephen- > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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