On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
No kidding. Banning any discussions on this list that have to do with patents is just plain silly.
I just re-read everything I wrote today. No where in my messages did I use the word "ban." There are many viable solutions, and yes, removing oneself from the list is absolutely part of the solution options for some of us. But I want to make sure people don't think I'm proposing banning anything as I'm not. However...
As many others have said, we have the right and need to be able to discuss this, as it definitely impacts our ability to do our work.
On that note, I think this may need clarification. If by "discuss this" you mean the business, practitioner or philosophical issues and at high level, about one company suing another over tools some designers use and need for their work, I absolutely agree. But if by "discuss this" you means the details of the patents themselves as part of that discussion -- what they say, what was patented, how it was patented, etc -- that would be different and inappropriate for an organization that aims to support professional product designers.
The actions of iRise could be interpreted as monopolizing the market, or trying bully Axure out of existence. We have the right to know about this and discuss it's impact on our market.
Given this statement, I presume you mean the former in what I stated above. I agree it's an issue that should be vetted. But as a community of professionals who work in the high-technology, people *have* to be cognizant of the very real legal implications of how something like this is discussed on a practitioner supported discussion list.
I think Josh has stated the IxDA's position and action items elegantly. They all get the issue, its complexity and the implications. They'll do the appropriate thing and just need some time to figure it out.
Enjoy the weekend. I'll leave this one alone again for a while. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
