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I get that there are compromises made in every decision I make, and that to that extent, I am complicit in the actions taken by the companies that I support. I

I get that there are compromises made in every decision I make, and that to that extent, I am complicit in the actions taken by the companies that I support. I certainly did not mean to exempt myself from that; rather, I was trying to argue against the philosophy that such considerations should be ignored. While I get that pragmatism is important, I disagree that we can disregard the actions of the companies we support. As for the point about patents, I think that there's a difference between acting on infringement and actively seeking to expand their patents post-hoc to shut down competition. More broadly, I think that the USPTO needs to be much more selective about patents, to avoid precisely these kinds of problems.

mitchty 14y ago
No worries, sorry for the late reply, had to go watch sports and drink beer. :) I was just trying to find out exactly what it was that sparked your personal boycott and how that extends to other areas of life. Personally I can't be arsed to care about tech company patent litigation since there are much worse things to worry about. In essence I'm referring to things like child labor/environment damage etc.... I'm not absolving tech companies, but on a scale of 1-10 as to ethical considerations its not that high on the list I would rank. Basically that's my view in a nutshell, at work so I can't give a full reply, tschuss!