Microsoft is like one of those psycho girlfriends you hear about that come to your house in the middle of the night and key your car after you dumped them for being psycho in the first place.
Patents can burn in hades, and Microsoft with them. I only feel sorry for their employees. (Hey, our stockholders want your severance pay back so we froze your bank account until we can arrange the transaction).
Patent law has a very good purpose, but it does get out of hand. I'd hate the thought of designing a new piece of innovative software and putting it to market only to be crushed under the weight of a larger corporation stealing my design and selling it to their much larger customer base, potentially destroying my business before I've had time to establish a foothold in the marketplace, and having no recourse. Patents are meant to encourage innovation and, more importantly, protect the small business people from being run out of business by larger competitors. Unfortunately, it just doesn't always work that way.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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Microsoft is like one of those psycho girlfriends you hear about that come to your house in the middle of the night and key your car after you dumped them for being psycho in the first place.
Patents can burn in hades, and Microsoft with them. I only feel sorry for their employees. (Hey, our stockholders want your severance pay back so we froze your bank account until we can arrange the transaction).
Patent law has a very good purpose, but it does get out of hand. I'd hate the thought of designing a new piece of innovative software and putting it to market only to be crushed under the weight of a larger corporation stealing my design and selling it to their much larger customer base, potentially destroying my business before I've had time to establish a foothold in the marketplace, and having no recourse. Patents are meant to encourage innovation and, more importantly, protect the small business people from being run out of business by larger competitors. Unfortunately, it just doesn't always work that way.