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It's not like that at all. Your analogy is completely lost on me.
by davidu 15y ago
It's not like that at all. Your analogy is completely lost on me.
- kelnos 15y agoHe's merely pointing out that there are two ways (among others, of course) you can try to win in the marketplaces: 1. Build innovative products that your customers want, and keep iterating and innovating to keep your customers coming back for more. 2. Use the legal system to force your competitors out of your market, or make it so expensive to stay that it's harder to gain market share. Apple has a long and brilliant history of #1, which makes it even more disheartening that it seems like they're resorting to #2 here. While both may be legally valid, which is more beneficial to consumers and society as a whole?
- glenstein 15y agoI'm generally a lurker, and not a programmer, not highly opinionated on software patenting, but to me the analogy was perfectly clear. Bogus patents = military power useful innovations = effective societies. Trying to remove bogus patents/military power and shift the center of gravity over to useful innovations/effective societies, isn't nefarious despite advantaging one particular party.