On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >so when other people do it it is evil. When you do it, it is necessary? > Here is what Gosling says about patents and sun micro systems, "In Sun's early history, we didn't think much of patents. While there's a kernel of good sense in the reasoning for patents, the system itself has gotten goofy. Sun didn't file many patents initially. But then we got sued by IBM for violating the "RISC patent" - a patent that essentially said "if you make something simpler, it'll go faster". Seemed like a blindingly obvious notion that shouldn't have been patentable, but we got sued, and lost. The penalty was *huge*. Nearly put us out of business. We survived, but to help protect us from future suits we went on a patenting binge. Even though we had a basic distaste for patents, the game is what it is, and patents are essential in modern corporations, if only as a defensive measure...." http://nighthacks.org/roller/jag/entry/quite_the_firestorm Seems like if you want to do software business in united states, you have to commit the sin. -- Arun S.A.G _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
