Sorry to object but I think I did mention the estimated costs of patents to business in the US to be 500,000,000,000USD. Please tell me what is not sound and quantitative about that number? Is there a church of the 1/2 trillion USD that I missed? Maybe a spin-off of the church of the flying spaghetti monster (as an interesting aside, a recognized religion in Austria and has the official head gear of a strainer) One may argue about the means to the number (as there is no way to regression test it) but this is a number. Most successful techie business people I know just try to live with it and get on with life.. they've not tried to change it.
> If software patents expired in a few years, patent holders would have the > time to monetize their investment, and there wouldn't be all the crazy things > that we see. This is but one means to prevent trolling. The other would be to put a stipulation that the owner has to be making some effort to use the patent or forfeit it. Use it or lose it. Regards, Kirk -- 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.
