On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Nick Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Now the question of whether or not today's patent system is effective > at reaching that goal is perfectly valid question, and I think it is > clear that it is not. What you said up until this point made perfect sense, but there is a clear logical gap between your premise and this conclusion. Theoretically, the risk is there, but is it actually happening? How often do we read about lone inventors that get robbed of ideas by rich corporations because of a failure in the USPTO process? Also, I'd argue that there are plenty of counter examples to your proposal. Look no further than Facebook. Created and implemented by one person who started without any money and ended up being the youngest billionaire in the country. How come no corporations came along and stole his idea? Sorry to sound like a broken record but when I see the amount of software innovation that keeps happening in the US every day, I become more firmly convinced that the burden of proof lies on people claiming that the system is broken. Show us some hard evidence. -- 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
