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How to have this not happen to you: 1) Have your work patented. 2) Be acquired by a larger firm that can enforce your patents. If you don't have a patent, the
by linuxftw 7y ago
How to have this not happen to you:
1) Have your work patented.
2) Be acquired by a larger firm that can enforce your patents.
If you don't have a patent, then anyone can copy anything you create, and economies of scale are going to catch up to you and force you out of business.
I personally don't believe in patents, but it's the only way to operate today.
- cycloptic 7y ago>Be acquired by a larger firm that can enforce your patents. You mean like Apple? What other firm is going to acquire a startup with products like this, which are so tightly tied into MacOS/iOS?
- briandear 7y agoWacom. Avid. Adobe. There are a lot of companies that would buy tech like Astropad. Adobe could have integrated it into CS for instance and it would have been a value-add for that audience.
- cycloptic 7y agoEven if the software itself ticks a nice box as a feature add to some other product, the patents wouldn't have fit into the portfolios of any of those companies. To make it a profitable investment they would have had to pre-meditate a licensing deal... with Apple.
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