+1 Sandip, ---------------- Following are not my thoughts, if you read about the issue,, you can find them them somewhere. But I strongly believe in these lines. ---------------
* If you go to the fact and figure (As Venky told in meeting) , revenue goes in the hand of inventor is very fraction of total revenue generated by company using suing that patent. So how does in help to a inventor. * Nobody learn from teacher of moon or venus, or came with huge knowledge from birth. We learn/share/buy knowledge from each other , we use extensively pre-existing knowledge/tool to add and "++" kind of thing in current system, so We do not have right to patent that small "++" kind of object. * Patents are intended for monopoly. Monopoly is always harmful. * A company can make product without even getting patents. for software you always have protection mechanism which is sufficient. What type of protection M$ want ?? they got patent in page up /page down.. ( http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US7415666&QPN=US7415666 ) So, it means everybody has to pay to M$ for integrating innovative page up and page down method to their application. It also means, for a start-up like me , who just want to develop some applications and sell will have to go through all all patents and then decide which patent I am conflicting. Tell me one start-up who got benefit of patents,, Even if somebody got a patents, Big company always sue them for some other patent infringement and make a MoU by which now big company has one more patent in his list. * One of the reputed VC said "patents are like nuclear bombs" * This issue came with rightmost and then software, and now it came with "software over embedded hardware as one unit" and I predict that it will come again with "VHDL IP Cores based Systems", where their is no hardware exist. Everything is software. You can generated (using coding) any type of hardware over a generic programmable platform and updates and install new patches. You can download and install latest processors, etc. Better to start working in this issue also. as I have seen the progress of Xilinx and other companies and their technologies, soon we will be having such hardware in our hands, their , these companies has chance to rule/monopoly like M$ etc. Till now I have not observed such issue but it will face it near future. So Lets finish it this instance only. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
