How Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Others Use Patents to Bully Companies

[Owen Densmore]

Yet another Fireball/iClarified winner:
   http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=8134

Jonathan was a friend of mine at Sun .. we (the skunkworks) vetted all  
the Lighthouse/Nextstep code for infractions, great story for our next  
beer.

I always felt ambiguous about patents -- on the one hand they are an  
honest attempt at protection, on the other they are more toys for  
useless lawyers.  I felt OK about my nine, but I only did it in three  
areas, ones that I felt were appropriate.  And definitely  
responsible.  We passed up several others because they were frivolous.

     -- Owen



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[Douglas Roberts-2]

Schartz's blog entry reads well too:

http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/

--Doug

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yet another Fireball/iClarified winner:
 http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=8134

Jonathan was a friend of mine at Sun .. we (the skunkworks) vetted all the Lighthouse/Nextstep code for infractions, great story for our next beer.

I always felt ambiguous about patents -- on the one hand they are an honest attempt at protection, on the other they are more toys for useless lawyers.  I felt OK about my nine, but I only did it in three areas, ones that I felt were appropriate.  And definitely responsible.  We passed up several others because they were frivolous.

   -- Owen



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