On Aug 12, 12:14 pm, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps patents are only required by the investors? They want some kind of > protection on their investment and thus are trolls in the making if things > go awry. Google was a research project when it started. Other companies in > startup mode are similar. They only go after patents when it is important > and that happens when someone starts putting money down on their idea. > > Just speculating. No hard facts or other input. Just shooting from the hip. > >
While for me a fair comment and probably one of those things companies have to do as they grow its more an observation or side effect of the current system - it does not demonstrate that patents contribute to a healthy ecosystem. The exact same statement can be made of companies buying insurance, they probably skip on it at the beginning because they cant afford it and other priorities, but nobody would rightly say that insurance contributes to softwaare building. There are many other countless business activities that are performed with a growing business, they are not major contributing factors, they are just a part of life. -- 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.
