On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 10:38 -0500, Josh Berry wrote: [ . . . ] > I'm curious how you draw this conclusion. If anything, this makes it > worse, because UNLESS you have a giant portfolio, you don't dare try > and create something for fear of infringing someone else.
The new business model: have a great idea, begin a startup, create product, hawk yourself around the Big Players in hope you get bought up by a Big Player before a patent troll or Big Player notices you have violated patents and lands you with a stonking great patent suit which means they can buy you for next to nothing. Oh sorry, that's the current business model. And the previous one. Plus ća change, plus c'est la même chose. I guess you have to go back to the 1980s to find a time when a startup became a Big Player. That was before software patents really got hold of course. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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