Agree. as developers purely technical situations as this are a nuisance for
sure, but the patents you need to be outraged about center on business
methods. Its these patents that make it almost impossible to say for
example, build an ecommerce site. I can pretty much bet anybody on this
list who has built an ecommerce site has for most intents and purposes
probably infringed on a patent.
So instead of being outraged because you have to add a few lines of code to
work around a patent to make your project accessible to the majority of your
customer base, you should take up the grievance with the patent office and
government when they allow business method patents and other far more
damaging patents.
That's my 2 cents, hope this thread ends soon (filling my mail box up, gonna
have to start a new folder for this thread alone hehe )
-Kevin Marino
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-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 3:17 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT (was Re: Macromedia sinks on sales news)
> But Eolas is still only suing MS and that is precisely my issue with
> him. I don't think he has any intentions of suing Apple and AOL. Which
> in my book are still pretty big fish. They have openly said they are
> trying to 'balance the internet browser war'. (ie. We're only going to
> sue MS)
>
I don't know how many times I have to repeat myself. It is standard
practice to sue the biggest fish first and then to handle the rest
after that case is finished. This a legal strategy used in all
industries. Further, this strategy has the additional business benefit
of reducing overall legal expenses as the other companies will
generally settle if the first lawsuit is won. Eolas's decision to
pursue only Microsoft at this point is common and expected behavior.
All of the reasons people keeping pointing out that make Eolas a bad
company in their eyes can be applied to most of the top companies in
existence. IMHO, web developers only seem to care about this particular
patent issue because it affects them directly. Where is the outcry for
all the other stupid patents and the companies behind them?
Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.MontaraSoftware.com
(888) 408-0900 x901
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