By: delmoi
Oops, that should be "I don't consider the existence of patents isn't evidence that the patents themselves motivated the original creation of the software" I was editing the sentence and it got a...
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First of all let me clarify what I meant when I said "patent pushers" I just meant people arguing that software patents are a good idea. As in "patent promoters" or whatever. I thought it was pretty...
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I thought the argument was that the existence of patents makes all software better, and that the evidence for that was that a lot of good software has related patents. No, I think that this is what...
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1046 (including quotes) words of butthurt? You really can't bear it when people won't just let you steamroller your way through as usual, can you? Sorry, unpicking that morass of wrong just isn't worth...
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1046 (including quotes) words of butthurt? You really can't bear it when people won't just let you steamroller your way through as usual, can you? Sorry, unpicking that morass of wrong just isn't worth...
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You guys are the ones who expanded the discussion and seemed to claim that all software that anyone had ever taken out a related patent on was only as good as it was because of those patents. You're...
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Blazecock was wrong: you really are a troll; you're just a prolific one. There aren't "patent pushers" in this thread, there are a spectrum of posters Oh please. Let us say then that there is a class...
View ArticleBy: robertc
If it had been patented (and more importantly closed), we'd just be using something different (and not necessarily inferior at all). The point I'm making is: if it had been patented, whether closed or...
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More significantly for this thread, what if someone had patented some of the components of SMTP in the early seventies? Would a global, standardised, essentially free email system ever have arisen?...
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The fundamental question is: How much of Microsoft business would be different if there were no software patents? Would windows still exist and be about as good as it is? If software patents had...
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And I was also trying to illuminate the extreme worst case scenario envisioned by the patent pushers in the thread. Blazecock was wrong: you really are a troll; you're just a prolific one. There aren't...
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It doesn't! That's the point of the example. Which is why appealing to what's in a programmer's head as they're creating a program has fuck-all to do with whether or not patents/copyright/whatever act...
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How does that even make sense? Writers don't take copyright into consideration when they write, because they are creating something new. It doesn't! That's the point of the example. Which is why...
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So, wait, do the programmers take copyright into consideration when they code? How does that even make sense? Writers don't take copyright into consideration when they write, because they are creating...
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Your argument's coming apart at the seams, delmoi: People don't take patents into consideration when they code ... They use copyright law to protect their work. So, wait, do the programmers take...
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$0.25 per unit on every USB pen drive and SD card With a max of $250k per licensee. So far less then that in practice. Even weirder, when you read the article it's clear that the patents in question...
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How much money has Microsoft made because of patent licensing? Just to answer your rhetorical question: $0.25 per unit on every USB pen drive and SD card. The interesting thing about this one, of...
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Pretty sure that if there was a thread on how paying for groceries allows shelves in stores to be restocked someone would chip in to let us know how volunteers could be stocking the shelves themselves...
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