My reply interspersed.
On 8/26/2012 12:39 AM, Darren Addy wrote:
The stifling of patented Intellectual Property theft? I believe that
is the purpose of the laws that are on the books (to prevent or at
least disincentivize that). I'm sure that most of you know that
patents exist to reward innovators and stimulate innovation, for the
good of society. To allow Intellectual Property larceny would stifle
that innovation (and from that we all would suffer).
We have a saying in Hebrew - "don't be right, be smart". Apple is right
but definitely not smart.
Unlike you, English is a foreign language to me. Some of my
contemporaries made inventions or innovations that warranted a patent.
Man, the language of the resulting documents was anything but human. How
that can stimulate innovation would have to be explained to me in very
simple terms, because it might have been so 300 years ago, but today
patents exist to reward layers.
Some of you act like this is the first patent lawsuit judgement you
have ever heard of.
It is the biggest one, and the most covered by mass media, is it not?
Presumably most of you are in favor of Pentax being granted patents on
their innovations and would have an opinion if some other company
"lifted them" to Pentax's detriment. Frankly, it seems like some of
you hear the word "Apple" and your heads disappear up your arses.
G-d, Darren, I am thinking you don't grok it. Samsung and Apple are huge
corporations. Samsung produces just about everything from TV sets to
mirrorless cameras and whatever else in between. For them USD 1 BN of
fines is mere hiccup. Two or three years down the road they won't even
remember it happened, unless one would have to look in some huge
accountant volume or something. And personally I could care less about
their accounting balances.
Will you kindly point your browser here:
http://source.android.com/index.html
On the top right part of the site you will notice news item: "Source
Code Available for Android 4.1". That's promoting innovation at its
purest form. Whoever has talent (e.g. Cyanogen mod team:
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/) can take the sources and work with them
their magic. Android Nexus devices are produced without any skins on
top, fully open just for people who like to innovate.
Apple does not have that and never will. No, that's not Apple vs
everybody else bickering. That's just a fact of life. Apple is by
definition closed.
So now that Android ecosystem got very bloody nose, it is not innovation
that will flourish, but rather lawyers (good people, this bunch, they
need to bring home some bread and butter too) while true innovation in
this area will be marginalized.
I am afraid the patent system as it is now requires much refactoring. I
don't dwell in details of the patents or details of the trial anyway,
but it appears to me that Apple practically invented the wheel. Pinch
zoom - patent?! Come on, be serious.
Suppose I am a young physics student working with lasers or whatever.
And suppose I innovate a brand new laser tech that among other things
will allow me to build new improved computer mouse. Now - how many
patents I have to work around? How much money I will need to pay up
front to the layers and patent consultants? Will I really want to
innovate and build my improved computer mouse? Of course there are
rhetorical questions.
As always - with true and sincere respect to you, sir.
Boris
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