[Forum] Internet TV patent | ANN.lu |
Posted on 17-Jul-2004 09:33 GMT by Amon_Re | 62 comments View flat View list |
Yet another software patent that shouldn't have been granted :(
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Posted by ujb on 20-Jul-2004 06:38 GMT | In reply to Comment 52 (Darrin): >I even can't afford to pay those licenses.
If you can't pay the license than don't develop it. "I can't aford it" is no excuse for stealing something in a court of law ;-)
Don't get me wrong here: It's not my intention to steal something (property must be protected!). Qusetion is: What is a property? Are Thoughts a property?
Look if some company uses their patents to ask for to high royalties then it becomes difficult to develop something. Let's assume I am trying to create some easy usb device (it's not my profession, just a hobby). Say an adapter for a psx game pad to usb (I know those devices are available and I don't do this..). There is no magic in such a development, nothing to patent (the idea is mine, maybe some others had the same idea, but only because some other had the idea earlier than me it should be forbidden that I have the same idea? Thoughts are free!). But what will I as a private person do if Sony or - more realistic - some twilight company with an army of lawers just jumps in and claims that device hits some patents of them and they want a lot of cash? I as a private person can't affort it to fight a law suite and I can't affort it to fight against the ammount of royalties the patent holder is asking. Therefore I come to the conclusion I will not develop such a device... Sad, isn't it?
And remember the idea with the psx gamepad is just an example, I do not state my real plans here, because I am afraid my thoughts leak to somewhere and someone uses them to make a patent out of it. Yes, we are that far that I became that paranoid. It is very sad that it is like that. |
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Comment 58 | RAG | | 20-Jul-2004 09:04 GMT |
Comment 59 | Amon_Re | Registered user | 20-Jul-2004 10:10 GMT |
Comment 60 | Darth_X | Registered user | 21-Jul-2004 22:18 GMT |
Comment 61 | Darth_X | Registered user | 21-Jul-2004 22:23 GMT |
Comment 62 | Darth_X | Registered user | 21-Jul-2004 22:38 GMT |
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