YEAH, DOWN WITH THE LITTLE GUY. SCREW THOSE SMALLER COMPANIES. MS, APPLE, EBAY, and YAHOO FTW.
SUXORS.
Stay in school kids. Elminating meaningful damages is the basis of the "reform", and in conjunction with the elimination of injunctions (Ebay v. Merc Exchange), it is the end of any meaningful patent system. For those of you too dense to understand what that means, it means that the only thing that matters is the size of your warchest (ability to prolong litigation) and the speed with which you can identify and incorporate IP owned by companies with smaller warchests (will die before being able to overtake your market share). It means you need to raise at least the market cap of MS (100 some odd billion?) before you even THINK about working in software.
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andy @ May 31st 2007 4:20PM
@ John B
re patent reform:
YEAH, DOWN WITH THE LITTLE GUY. SCREW THOSE SMALLER COMPANIES. MS, APPLE, EBAY, and YAHOO FTW.
SUXORS.
Stay in school kids. Elminating meaningful damages is the basis of the "reform", and in conjunction with the elimination of injunctions (Ebay v. Merc Exchange), it is the end of any meaningful patent system. For those of you too dense to understand what that means, it means that the only thing that matters is the size of your warchest (ability to prolong litigation) and the speed with which you can identify and incorporate IP owned by companies with smaller warchests (will die before being able to overtake your market share). It means you need to raise at least the market cap of MS (100 some odd billion?) before you even THINK about working in software.
but yeah, PATENT REFORM! SAVE US!
John B @ May 31st 2007 4:25PM
Andy, what are you smoking and why aren't you sharing with the rest of us? That seems to be some really good stuff.
arnold @ May 31st 2007 4:34PM
andy....it must feel good to dispense your endless knowledge....
you're an idiot.....and the worst kind...the kind that thinks he knows something.