On 12/25/2010 11:19 AM, Tim Cook wrote:
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@oracle.com
<mailto:erik.trim...@oracle.com>> wrote:
On 12/25/2010 6:25 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
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On Behalf Of Joerg Schilling
And people should note that Netapp filed their patents
starting from 1993.
This
is 5 years after I started to develop WOFS, which is copy
on write. This
still
In any case, this is 20 year old technology. Aren't
patents something to
protect new ideas?
Boy, those guys must be really dumb to waste their time filing
billion
dollar lawsuits, protecting 20-year old technology, when it's
so obvious
that you and other people clearly invented it before them, and
all the money
they waste on lawyers can never achieve anything. They should
all fire
themselves. And anybody who defends against it can safely
hire a law
student for $20/hr to represent them, and just pull out your
documents as
defense, because that's so easy.
Plus, as you said, the technology is so old, it should be
worthless by now.
Why are we all wasting our time in this list talking about
irrelevant old
technology, anyway?
While that's a bit sarcastic there Ned, it *should* be the
literal truth. But, as the SCO/Linux suit showed, having no
realistic basis for a lawsuit doesn't prevent one from being
dragged through the (U.S.) courts for the better part of a decade.
<sigh>
Why can't we have a loser-pays civil system like every other
civilized country?
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800)
If you've got enough money, we do. You just have to make it to the
end of the trial, and have a judge who feels similar. They often
award monetary settlements for the cost of legal defense to the victor.
--Tim
Which is completely useless as a system. I'm still significantly
out-of-pocket for a suit that I shouldn't have had to fight in the first
place, and the likelihood that I get to recover that money isn't good
(defense cost awards aren't common). There's no disincentive to
trolling the legal system, forcing settlements on those unable to fight
a protracted suit, even if they're sure to win the case.
Using the US legal system as a business strategy is evil, pure and
simple, and one all too common nowadays.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800)
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