On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> 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. > That's certainly not what we are seeing. Start ups get acquired left and right for various sums of money, sometimes for the team, sometimes for the product and sometimes for the IP. Again, if the nightmare scenario you depict were accurate, nobody would even dare to create start ups in the first place. -- 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.
