sweeney2014

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by sweeney2014 12y ago
No, just show them how they can make money and management will listen. Next get a demo/prototype in their hands and go from there. >‘It’s amazing that the most innovative ideas that General Motors has come up with have come from th
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by sweeney2014 12y ago
There is a difference between thinking about users, scaling, marketing vs successfully carrying it out. Without needing to carry out the users, scaling, marketing they were able to focus on the technology and innovating. This matters becau
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by sweeney2014 13y ago
Not quite. Those so called patent trolls are the thorn in the side of the large corporations. Even after a small entity succeeds in obtaining a patent and has their innovation copied by a large corporation and opens a dialogue with the la
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by sweeney2014 13y ago
That example is not an isolated incident and happens far too often. It has been part of the large corporations game plan for years now. They have found ways of using the patent system to attack small entities AND have used their deep pock
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by sweeney2014 13y ago
If you count history as starting recently, then sure. However, the patents came AFTER the refining of an idea to concrete steps which came AFTER the funding to refine the idea which came AFTER the guy/gal with the idea finding funding
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by sweeney2014 13y ago
Patents block copying only exactly what's covered by the Claims and thereby encourage finding alternatives or develop new ways. Society benefits from having alternatives to choose from.
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by sweeney2014 13y ago
> Software patents are such an obvious incumbrance to programmers true for those looking to copy or re-implement something they see from others. For programmers looking to innovate or do something completely new and need a way to fund i