Will technology ever progress again?
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/microsoft-buys-netscape-web-patents-from-aol-to-attack-google/2203?tag=content;feature-roto[^] Given this article and all the other instances of mega corporations prefering to sue each other and getting rediculously vague patents over R&D funding, will technology ever recover from this cycle of lawyer lead BS?
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/microsoft-buys-netscape-web-patents-from-aol-to-attack-google/2203?tag=content;feature-roto[^] Given this article and all the other instances of mega corporations prefering to sue each other and getting rediculously vague patents over R&D funding, will technology ever recover from this cycle of lawyer lead BS?
Yes, that's true, they do that. Nonetheless, as far as IT is concerned (and maybe electric battery as well), it seems to me that creativity is as good or better than ever before! ;)
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/microsoft-buys-netscape-web-patents-from-aol-to-attack-google/2203?tag=content;feature-roto[^] Given this article and all the other instances of mega corporations prefering to sue each other and getting rediculously vague patents over R&D funding, will technology ever recover from this cycle of lawyer lead BS?
This is excellent! Once they start charging or intimidating the world then new techs will emerge to get around the problem. Creativity will prevail! I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't out there people trying to find new ways to have a new kind of "SSL" after having read that.
Alberto Bar-Noy --------------- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” (C3PO)
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/microsoft-buys-netscape-web-patents-from-aol-to-attack-google/2203?tag=content;feature-roto[^] Given this article and all the other instances of mega corporations prefering to sue each other and getting rediculously vague patents over R&D funding, will technology ever recover from this cycle of lawyer lead BS?
There was a very interesting documentary recently on the BBC about the evolution of radio technology. It turned out that Marconi managed to get hold of the technology from Nikola Tesla, apparently Marconi was not a genius when it came to engineering, after which he patented the technology so that nobody else could develop it. He then proceeded to make himself into a very rich man. Years on we now have wifi, so while Marconi may have slowed progress he certainly did not stifle it... This is why I think sites such as CodeProject are so important - we are working counter to this commercial greed by sharing our knowledge. So excellent work Chris and all the code project contributors:thumbsup:
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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There was a very interesting documentary recently on the BBC about the evolution of radio technology. It turned out that Marconi managed to get hold of the technology from Nikola Tesla, apparently Marconi was not a genius when it came to engineering, after which he patented the technology so that nobody else could develop it. He then proceeded to make himself into a very rich man. Years on we now have wifi, so while Marconi may have slowed progress he certainly did not stifle it... This is why I think sites such as CodeProject are so important - we are working counter to this commercial greed by sharing our knowledge. So excellent work Chris and all the code project contributors:thumbsup:
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens