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[oldschoolh4ck3r]

Yes, the government always has the solution, don't they?
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The future is FOSS.

[GraysonPeddie]

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"As my grandmother used to say, you don't throw the baby out with the bath water," said Dorian Daley, senior vice president and general counsel at Oracle.

How can Oracle compare the analogy to eliminating patents?

This post has been edited by GraysonPeddie: 24 February 2013 - 02:49 PM

[thewazak]

What would no software patents solve anyway?
Apple will continue to sue - like the one against Samsung for using rounded corners on a device.
It's part of their advertizing budget!

[MadMattAu]

Always interesting, but never comprehensible.

Drug companies have had a limited life on their patents basically forever. Paracetamol, Glysophate are both patent expired. I don't see the companies that invented them going out of business any time soon.

Who does not seek patent protection :-. Coca Cola appear to be doing quite well without a patent on their product. KFC to are not in the bankruptcy courts. They just treat their IP as a trade secret.

Wake up and smell the coffee folks. The successful companies have a product people want to buy. The others have patents. Whilst ever Apple can have a patent on "curved corners" and Tech companies in general can patent pie in the sky ideas that they are incapable into turning into a working prototype of anything the things are a joke.

To get a patent you must present a functioning version of the product, using the patentable idea. And you only have a limited few years, say 5, to make your money before the patent expires.

Drug companies spend far more bringing a new drug to market than say apple do in releasing a new iPhone. Lets give them both the same patent protection. Then it will be innovate or perish instead of the current Innovate:- have we got a patent on that.

If we were to remove the patent big stick that the big IT companies have used for years to stifle innovation and hold back adoption of FOSS by threatening users of FOSS with patent law suits. Then we would see real innovation instead of patents on the shades of grey you can use.,

[pmoulder]

I agree with MadMat and could not have put it any better. Oracle is one of the worst companies I have observed. I would guess that they get 10 plus Billion from the Government.

[bullfrog25]

What about for the regular lay people who don't patent THEIR inventions...the high corporates could really take advantage of this!!! How would you stop this !?!??!