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If you are at the end of a hard day's work, struggling with a tough problem and making no progress at all, even regressing at some points, take solace in this:
by lmarinho 15y ago
If you are at the end of a hard day's work, struggling with a tough problem and making no progress at all, even regressing at some points, take solace in this: you still did a lot more for the world than the guys at Lodsys
- sliverstorm 15y agoI wonder what kind of job satisfaction being a valueless leech off society brings?
- pyrhho 15y agoApparently it doesn't bring enough guilt to offset the "driving my new Ferrari" satisfaction it brings... Edit: A bit unfair and stereo-typing.. I'm sure there are good people working at Lodsys that got sucked in...
- jcromartie 15y agoI really wonder, though. Doesn't this operation usually consist of a sleezeball and his secretary? I mean, Lodsys doesn't do anything after all...
- Stwerner 15y agoYou would be surprised. I met someone this weekend at a wedding who works at a law firm that specialises in software patent suits, and he really didn't understand or even care. Outside of this and similar communities, no one has any idea that software shouldn't be patentable, or even that there are issues with it in the first place.
- lmarinho 15y agoNot to mention that the shady practices are obfuscated by properly sterilized language, as in many other organizations. One does not "threaten small developers with expensive lawsuits", one merely "extracts value from investments".
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoThat's right, they believe they are doing the world a favor by "financing innovation".