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Woohoo! Big news this for anyone who believes that programmers should be free to innovate rather than worrying about being sued by Amazon for offering a one-click buy system (or a gift wrapping service). Bad news for Nokia, Bill Gates and patent lawyers. [URL]http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/06/1156214&from=rss[/URL]
And a quick summary of the issues from Bill Gates himself:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. ... The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."
And a quick summary of the issues from Bill Gates himself:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. ... The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."
Aye.
Bloody good news, if you ask me.
Woohoo! Big news this for anyone who believes that programmers should be free to innovate rather than worrying about being sued by Amazon for offering a one-click buy system (or a gift wrapping service). Bad news for Nokia, Bill Gates and patent lawyers. [URL]http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/06/1156214&from=rss[/URL]
And a quick summary of the issues from Bill Gates himself:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. ... The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."
And a quick summary of the issues from Bill Gates himself:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. ... The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."