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"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally use
by manaskarekar 14y ago
"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying."
-- John Carmack.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010124060000/www.voodooextreme.com/games/interviews/carmack/ http://web.archive.org/web/20010124060000/www.voodooextreme....
- petegrif 14y agoI may be horrifying but rediscovering something is not the same as inventing it.
- doug363 14y agoWhy do you say they're not the same? I would tend to think that they are essentially the same.
- stevewilhelm 14y agoOr when presented with a problem, one could do a patent search, license the existing technology, and build something even more innovative.
- chii 14y agothis will work if the tech is sufficiently innovative, and is difficult to implement, and is not at all obvious that such piece of tech is the solution to such a problem. However, some of the patents i've seen being battled out in court is about the _shape_ of a phone. Rounded corners. Swipe, pinch to zoom, and bounce when reached the end of a list. These things are not worthy of being patented, and none of them are non-obvious enough to be called innovative. it is at these patents that ruin the system.