2011/3/8 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > > 2011/3/8 Kevin Wright <[email protected]> > >> 2. Something is created, the inventor doesn't follow through for fear that >> it'll infringe another patent and he/she will lose their house through legal >> fees > > > Yes, we keep going back to this nightmare scenario but we haven't seen it > happen much, have we? > > Besides, there is a third option: > > 3. Something is created, the inventor learns that a patent covers that > invention and find himself having to come up with a different idea (thereby, > innovating further). > > I'm not saying that 2) never happens and 3) always does, but I know for a > fact that 3) does happen, and it seems like a positive force for innovation > to me. > > -- > Cédric > > 4. She's able to run with the idea because patents don't prevent her and, in the time saved, does something even more novel rather than reinventing the wheel.
-- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] <[email protected]>mail: [email protected] vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright twitter: @thecoda "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- 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.
