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>sounds like Silicon Valley had a solution 40 years ago to the patent mess: pretend they don't exist! No they had a solution and it was MAD. >The people at Si
by indiecore 14y ago
>sounds like Silicon Valley had a solution 40 years ago to the patent mess: pretend they don't exist!
No they had a solution and it was MAD.
>The people at Signetics
told me they didn’t want to apply for a patent,
because what would happen if they tried to enforce
that patent, is the people from Fairchild would come
back with a Manhattan-sized telephone book and say
“These are our patents, now let’s see what you’re
violating”.
And it worked really well for a time. Unfortunately someone thought they could win and decided to "go nuclear" and now we're all stuck in the middle of a patent war.