Patents help large companies for whom the cost of patents is a fraction of their turnover. This is at the cost of small companies who are often unable to obtain funding due to the perceived threat of future patent problems
When was encouraging the incumbents and crippling start-ups ever an effective route to innovation? 2010/9/13 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > > 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 > > > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
