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This needs it.
Apple, any company fighting monopolistic practises, Sun, and the pantent office. Not just one company harmed software development. MANY.
I'd been called 'ugly', 'pug ugly', 'fugly', 'pug fugly' but never 'ugly ugly'. - Moe Szyslak
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Alpha Nerd wrote: pantent
Did you mean patent?
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Yeah, it's my speed typing. 
"...when a shark stops swimming, it blows up." - Nelson Muntz
"That photoshopping freak!" - Marge Simpson
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True not one but many company harmed software development
Viral
YahooID : just_viral
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Rentacoder. Or at least I can make a pretty good educated guess. 
Thanks Christian, made my day.
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yes 
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If you really believe that drivel then you had to have selected Microsoft.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Paul Watson wrote: drivel
Hardly.
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Agree to disagree.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Having just visited your website, I'd say ASP.NET
hehehehehe
'Howard
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Howard Richards wrote: Having just visited your website, I'd say ASP.NET
Yup, writtin in c# 
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Yeah good joke, keep 'em rollin'.
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Probably by being easy to use, popular, enabling fast development etc.
'Howard
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Howard Richards wrote: fast development
Development is a word I wouldn't use in this context, more like scripting or hacking.
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BASIC was easy to use VB.NET is not until you realize it is C#
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shouldnt be the goverment representing the people and helping them to make a beautiful living. 
Instead of that the often seem to be the helper of the big companies, who are the first of playing monopoly, not paying taxes and outsourcing the jobs. 
Greetings from Germany
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Anybody can file for a patent. It does cost money but a good invention will easily get VC money to file for the patent.
Once you get a patent the biggest company in the world cannot break it. For individuals it is an amazing way to compete with big companies. You just have to use your brain.
(I'm not saying patents are perfect, they are far from it, but they are better than no patents at all.)
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Paul Watson wrote: Anybody can file for a patent. It does cost money
More than freelancer can afford.
And any major company can easily ruin him by a prolonged lawsuit.
In German law, commonly "the looser pays it all", seriously discouraging lawsuits to keep the opponent down.
But american standards have tainted this principle by means of international treaties. 
Paul Watson wrote: but they are better than no patents at all
For software (as opposed to material goods) I would like to have no patents at all!
Patenting thought seem soooo wrong!
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
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jhwurmbach wrote: More than freelancer can afford.
As I said, you get funding. Cheap patents would be worse than current expensive patents. Every nut and their dog would file patents they had no intention of implementing.
jhwurmbach wrote: And any major company can easily ruin him by a prolonged lawsuit.
It works both ways. Small companies hassling big companies.
jhwurmbach wrote: For software (as opposed to material goods) I would like to have no patents at all!
Patenting thought seem soooo wrong!
Nobody would pay you to think if ten minutes after you've come up with an idea a competitor could take the idea and implement it. Funders would then instead just wait for ideas to appear rather than funding new ideas.
The other side is that the patent system gets ideas into the public space. You can publish exactly how something works and not have it stolen from you. Others can learn from what you have figured out and innovate from there.
Without patents you have trade secrets which are bad for everyone and can ruin companies when a breach occurs.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Paul Watson wrote: Every nut and their dog would file patents they had no intention of implementing.
To me, this seems already to be the case.
Patent trolling has become a proper business model by now.
Paul Watson wrote: Nobody would pay you to think if ten minutes after you've come up with an idea a competitor could take the idea and implement it.[...]You can publish exactly how something works and not have it stolen from you.
Sure they they would pay me - they do at the moment!
Remenber, up until now there are no Softwarepatents in the EU, and we're doing fine.
Naturely, the major near-monopoly companys want more control and do lobbying for software patents.
Patents are simply not the proper protection for software - thats copyright.
And copyright laws are of gargantuan strenght nowadays. So, don't fear someone taking your Code.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
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>Patents are simply not the proper protection for software - thats copyright.
That sounds like even more trouble. Enforcing it would be impossible and companies would just get away with it and you'd have no incentive to innovate.
>Remenber, up until now there are no Softwarepatents in the EU, and we're doing fine.
But there are now (I work in Ireland) and the Europe would have suffered without them.
I don't think patents are perfect or even the right way. But nobody has a better idea right now.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Paul Watson wrote: >Remenber, up until now there are no Softwarepatents in the EU, and we're doing fine.
But there are now
Sorry, they are not. The EU-patent office is accepting applications, though, thus breaking the law.
Paul Watson wrote: Patents are simply not the proper protection for software - thats copyright.
[...]Enforcing it would be impossible
And so are patents.
Worse - patents hamper research and development of new products, and that means progress.
You cann not be sure you are not infringing a patent. Too many submarine-patents in the major portfolios.
The major players cross-license and stop new players entering the market.
Totally contrary to any ideas of liberalism and such.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
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