Re: How Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Others Use Patents to Bully Companies
Posted by
Douglas Roberts-2 on
Mar 10, 2010; 4:55pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/How-Steve-Jobs-Bill-Gates-Others-Use-Patents-to-Bully-Companies-tp4710012p4710627.html
Schartz's blog entry reads well too:
--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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