Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 21:39:07 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <CADGWnjUgmp3JMUxf2Zx9KH2pNOMeONxdhB3_dT1_NPJJnA8Waw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120805141542.2a5125ec@scorpio> References: <20120805045800.29444.qmail@joyce.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208051330090.21508@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20510.27576.562781.36878@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20120805093320.7b7f0fc4@scorpio> <20510.40571.417415.852536@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20120805141542.2a5125ec@scorpio>
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On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > I never stated than anyone should be denied the right to create or write > basically whatever they so desire; however, if they are going to > piggyback their work on another author or developer's works, then that > individual deserves to receive compensation. The point here is that an INDIVIDUAL deserves compensation. Whether some mega corp with a huge portfolio of patents deserves the same is to be questioned. Especially considering that those huge mega corps use those patents to stomp all over the little (programmer) guy and destroy his little livelihood. That's what patents were initially designed to prevent: that some predatory industrial magnate would steal the idea of the little inventor to make a profit, without compensating the inventor for his ideas. Sadly, this principle (protecting the little inventors) has been turned upside-down due to the abysmal performance of the Patent Office examiners who rubber stamping just about every patent application with the words "machinery for ..." in it. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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