On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 00:49, Erlend Hamnaberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Now, there is that living in Norway where software patents are illegal. > Gotta love the "suing for innovativeness" going on in the US. > Software patents are completely useless. They are only there for some noisy > companies to screw around with competitors.
In general patents were invented to somehow protect innovative people/companies investing years of research to create something new. I can understand that idea. There are two problems with that: 1. people try to trick that (patent things they didn't either start research on so just asking the patent for an idea etc) 2. Patent offices allowing to patent things that are not worth patenting or either already exist (not necessarily with a patent). This is, what makes it useless. > Yes, I said it. Apple has never done anything new. > There are just a bunch of pretentious bastards that have been stealing from > everyone else. > Like everyone else is doing in the software industry. That doesn't happen only in software industry. Industrial spying has been around a good while. -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
