Well I'd say the inability for independent developers to get patents granted within a reaonable timeframe prevents them from trying to shop their ideas around. And wasn't Zuckerberg sued for stealing the idea of Facebook himself?
On Mar 4, 1:30 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
