On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Since you want proof for others statements can you please provide proof of > your "fact" that Y is higher than any other country in the world? I'm not > even sure how to quantify that let alone calculate it. > Really? Looks pretty easy to me. Take the top 100 software companies in the world (for example, from this list<http://www.softwaretop100.org/top-100-largest-software-companies-in-the-us>) and see how many of them are from America (where there are strong software patent laws) and how many of them are from China (where there are no software patent laws). Of course, there are various ways you can order this list: revenue, profit, number of employees, page views per months, etc... but I'm pretty sure that no matter the criterion you pick, you'll find out that at least 90% of them are American companies. > Let's discuss this once a verdict is rendered, or a settlement is reached. > This might be a few years in the future, but we will probably have learned a > lot in the meantime. > > > Yeah - that the current patent system sucks and software patents are a bad > idea. Oh yeah, most of us already know that. > This is exactly the kind of unfounded hand waving I was referring to earlier. "Everybody knows it's a bad idea, we don't need to get to the bottom of it". Well, I went to the bottom of it, and I was very surprised by what I found, especially when I ended up reaching a conclusion that was the complete opposite of what I used to think before I decided to actually research the topic. -- 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.
