Ytes, I heard that story. I also heard another one where the inventor sold the invention to an even larger firm, who won over the first.
There is always dangerous for the inventor to hold the invention too much to himself. It is better to own a little of something big than to own everything of what becomes nothing. DagT Sendt fra min iPad Den 30. aug. 2012 kl. 10:39 skrev Joseph McAllister <[email protected]>: > > On Aug 28, 2012, at 14:43 , DagT wrote: > >> Which is very unfair for those who have great ideas. >> >> You know the circuitry for making efficient car engines? It may easily be >> duplicated by software if it is not already. Some millions of dollars >> research just to give it away to the competitor. Why bother making clean >> engines? But we want them, so have make people do the research if they don´t >> get anything back? > > Ever see the movie about the laid off GM employee who cobbled together the > first delayed timer wiper system? He pitched it to GM. They said they weren't > interested. But they put it as an option on all their cars the next year. > Never did any research, just used factory made components to "clean it up" > from the model. > > Took the inventor years and years to win in court. Big bucks. IIRC he either > died just before he won, or shortly there after. IIRC he di dget the > satisfaction he deserved. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
