[PCWorld]

Post your comments for Facebook sued over 'Like' button by Dutch programmer's family here

[redeyeguy]

This is an idea not an invention. Patent courts are highly biased and usually uneducated on the patent system. This has become a plague in our country where people are able to secure large amounts of assets with no effort. This is something that seriously has to be reevaluated in this country. The biggest concerns are the energy companies. It's ridiculous that you can patent technology to purposely keep it out of the consumers hands.

[change28]

This is stupid and a completely frivolous case!

[Follisimo0smi]

I hope they win. Social media is full of trash.

[Szczecinianin]

This only proves it's hard to be innovative and innovations are often inventing gunpowder as Poles say.

[creativity]

I find redeyeguy's comments unconvincing. Anyone who has ever tried to create something valuable and bring it to life know that such creativity is very hard work. The "no effort" comment is uninformed. I have read Van Der Meer's patents and find them remarkably creative and detailed. They are not something that was done on the back of a napkin. Why does one get the impression that those who trash inventions are the ones who want to steal them? Problem is, if creativity is so "no effort", then why don't more people create? Takers and givers. Creators and consumers. There is a place for all. It's time for the takers and the consumers to stop trashing the givers and the creators. You need us. The economy needs us. But what is the point if the takers, consumers and trashers just steal everything? In the end you'll just be wallowing in a garbage pile for the scraps of what is left of the theft-society that you leave behind.

[WinTard]

creativity, on 05 March 2013 - 01:57 PM, said:

I find redeyeguy's comments unconvincing. Anyone who has ever tried to create something valuable and bring it to life know that such creativity is very hard work. The "no effort" comment is uninformed. I have read Van Der Meer's patents and find them remarkably creative and detailed. They are not something that was done on the back of a napkin. Why does one get the impression that those who trash inventions are the ones who want to steal them? Problem is, if creativity is so "no effort", then why don't more people create? Takers and givers. Creators and consumers. There is a place for all. It's time for the takers and the consumers to stop trashing the givers and the creators. You need us. The economy needs us. But what is the point if the takers, consumers and trashers just steal everything? In the end you'll just be wallowing in a garbage pile for the scraps of what is left of the theft-society that you leave behind.

While I find your comments unconvincing. If what you say were true, then there would be no Open-Source at all. There would be no Linux either, since implementing whatever Unix does by 'reverse-engineering' the functionality would be considered illegal as well.

Instead I look forward, and am not interested in personal self-gains; but more looking towards what is good for the whole of Humanity.

Please read some of these topics, then come back to discuss your views and opinions?
http://www.neowin.ne...e2%80%99-ideas/


http://www.theverge....t-of-innovation

WinTard, on 28 February 2013 - 02:52 PM, said:

eoraptor2, on 27 February 2013 - 04:49 PM, said:

And what would SHIELD accomplish? The whole patent trolling ecosystem is geared to swarm someone under with the threat of legal action, or actual legal action, until they capitulate and pay license fees off to the troll, or give up their innovation to the troll. Since there is rarely a judgement issued on the validity of a patent except at the highest levels, this law would do nothing.

Except that anything is better than what this ridiculous situation is now:

Those freaking patent trolls are the lowest-of-the-low parasites of society:


This new SHIELD bill would instill some Fear Of God into these kinds of vermin.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~ Lao Tzu

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
~ Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American Poet
Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
~ Thomas Jefferson