So, your theory is that if you're a startup and some big company decides to implement your great idea for themselves, that... you sue them based on patents?
Right. Can you point at *ANY* case where that seems to have happened? There is no tech startup that I know of that is happy with the US software patent model. I know plenty that fear it, but decide to innovate in spite of them. On Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:37:46 PM UTC+1, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > Speaking of which: imagine you live in a world where software patents don't > exist. Would you join one? Would you create one? > > How would you feel about the fact that as soon as the product that your > start up is based on becomes even moderately public, anyone can copy it? Are > you that confident that you can keep ahead of this competition? Would you > leave your day job to join a start up that won't be able to protect its > software innovations? > > > -- > 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.
