4 ms·
Are you stating your last two sentences as the result of researching these issues? Because as a layperson, I would not have thought a company could get a paten
by jancsika 6y ago
Are you stating your last two sentences as the result of researching these issues?
Because as a layperson, I would not have thought a company could get a patent on clicking a button to purchase an item online.
- ryanmarsh 6y agoWhen you read HN comments it helps to preface them with “I feel like...”
- moonbug 6y agoEmphasis on "feeling", because there's seldom any thinking going on.
- COGlory 6y agoOr at least, you feel like there isn't
- jancsika 6y agoI upvoted you out of greyness because I feel like that is generally correct here. :) Now that I've helped you out of the quicksand, let's do battle: "[I feel like] it's not like there's some patent issue for using USB or wifi in your printer over whatever interface used in 2000 compared." I could certainly try harder to finesse it, but I don't see any sensible place to insert a "YMMV" into any part of that sentence.
- coldtea 6y ago>Are you stating your last two sentences as the result of researching these issues? Do you really believe "researching" is needed? Like, in every other domain and product category, a company can slap a faster processor and more RAM to the next iteration - as they do -, but this is somehow prevented in printers by patents? I'd say the extraordinary claim that needs extraordinary evidence is not mine...