On 13/09/2010, at 5:03 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Miroslav Pokorny > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I mentioned ARM as even though they are a hardware company they too exist > purely because of trust and excellence rather than patents. > > I'll take your word for that but I'll offer something for you to think about: > if they were located in a country with software patent laws, maybe they would > be doing even better than they are right now, precisely because they are > excellent. With software patent laws, they would be able to protect their > excellent ideas for a few years, thereby guaranteeing more sales, more > revenues, more funding for R&D, which would lead to even more innovations > coming from them. > > I think that software patent laws help great companies while hindering > mediocre ones (by preventing them from copying other people's ideas before > they have been tapped). > > -- > Cédric > Actually I believe that's impossible as they practically provide the hardware ip for nearly every smart and dumb phone as well as netbooks, gps etc like the iPhone, iPod, Android devices and so on. I'm having a hard time thinking how they could be more successful in their field of speciality - low powered, high performance CPU designs. How have patents helped IBM, they seem a pretty boring company. When was the last time they did something cool. They exist because managers trust the IBM name rather than because of excellence. Have patents helped them advance or develop forward or are they purely a defensive measure just in case... mP -- 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.
