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Yes because the only thing better than a medium sized company that won’t license its patents is a megacorp that won’t license its patents /s No the solution is
by IgorPartola 6y ago
Yes because the only thing better than a medium sized company that won’t license its patents is a megacorp that won’t license its patents /s
No the solution is to incentivize patent licensing and in the case of software make it simply not patentable. The corporate overlords won’t save us from themselves. If they had their way patents would simply never expire.
- PeterisP 6y agoA megacorp sitting on some patents can and will still release a whole range of mass market products (large volumes, so has to be cheap) that uses those patents and makes it available to the masses. A medium sized company can't really do that, so at best they will release a niche product that makes it available to a few people.
- syshum 6y agoMegaCorp (like say Amazon) would lock the tech up so only their products have it, So instead of being able to pick from a Kindle PaperWhite, OnyxBook, and a Remarkable you would only have the Kindle... and varitions of the Kindle Medium Corp will license their patent (at extreme rates) to other companies MegaCorp will not. Medium Corp is better than MegaCorp for consumers most of the time. FRAND licensing even batter, and No Patents at all even better
- unethical_ban 6y agoYour first sentence, but unironically. Big corp probably isn't as devoted to milking one IP asset to the detriment of its adoption. And they may have the resources to make more products in-house that utilize the tech. I agree that the patent system needs modification in the long run, though.
- b0rsuk 6y agoCounterpoint: game publishers are more than happy to sit on an IP without releasing a game for years. For example Dune (the board game). Dungeon Keeper. Hexen 3 (Hecatomb). Rune 2. Prey 2. Duke Nukem Forever... actually happened.