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A lot of these are covered by copyright, trademarks or simply by contracts > that build a better widget for a larger device - cars, computers, phones ever supp
by raverbashing 3y ago
A lot of these are covered by copyright, trademarks or simply by contracts
> that build a better widget for a larger device - cars, computers, phones ever suppose to make money?
The same they do today? By selling actual products?
- scarface_74 3y agoNone of my examples are covered by copyrights or trademarks. If they were covered by copyright, that would be worse. Copyright lasts 75 years, patents last 20. Why would you sign a contract with someone for their inventions if you didn’t have to? > The same they do today? By selling actual products? Do you realize how hard it is to do hardware at scale? One of my examples was chip design. Are you saying that ARMs business model of coming up with chip designs and then licensing them shouldn’t be legal?
- raverbashing 3y ago> Why would you sign a contract with someone for their inventions if you didn’t have to? Because you're buying the blueprints for the actual project instead of wasting time reverse-engineering it or developing it yourself There are plenty of ASIC/VHDL IP libraries not backed by patents, for example, and people still buy them
- scarface_74 3y agoSo ARM is just going to sell the blueprints once to Apple and Apple is going to turn around and use those blueprints to make literally billions of dollars? How is that going to work? Does Apple pay the same price as some no name Android manufacturer?