Part is how business is done when you have a patent system in place. It's hard to innovate when you're an investor, so those who do manage to sell in a certain

Part is how business is done when you have a patent system in place. It's hard to innovate when you're an investor, so those who do manage to sell in a certain market tend to milk their users instead of trying to get more customers. They don't really understand very well why people use IT products, so they tend to take no risks and lock in. This could be solved like this: * Be a company who doesn't lose lawsuits to patent trolls. I don't really know the details of that. I don't know how the justice system technically manage those things. * Fix the patent system to have an healthier innovation landmark. * Have a business model where companies who do innovate refuse to be bought, and only agree to do partnerships with other companies so to avoid the lock-in between giants. If you get bought by google or microsoft, it will indeed change how your product will end up being used or not. This solution is naive.