On 07/19/2011 05:31 PM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:
As it has been said, the US patent law is the culprit. But we can't
only contest US laws, that is a somewhat complex and slow process. We
can contest corporates that live on such kind of patents.
I generally agree with you.
I too think companies *don't* necessarily and always have to be
aggressive and use every possible legal-but-morally-questionable tactics
to make profits, because it's "just what companies do", and that it's
"just business".
BUT.
I also think there is little companies can do about this problem, even
if they *wanted* to do anything about it (they don't).
If one foolish company decides to be a "good citizen" and not
participate in the patents nonsense, surely they will be attacked by
every other companies and will simply cease to exist very soon.
I recall James Gosling talking about this in his blog, saying that at
the beginning, Sun did not "believe" in patents [not an actual quote],
but then they got hit very hard, the company almost died. After this
episode they just had to register lots of patents, like every other
company does.
So in my opinion a change can only be expected from lawmakers/elected
officials/politicians/activists/etc.
BoD
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