On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
And yet, we cannot seem to draft Microsoft to the anti-software
patents camp. Despite the fact that their loses to silly patents
over the years far outweight their gains from them.
Amazing
With all due respect what amazes me is that you believe that. Can you
offer any objective proof?
In the real world, people expect return on their investment. No one is
going to invest money in a company that gives away technology that
cost them their life savings, their retirement plan, or their home
without some other perceived return on investment.
Israel is different, it's investment system is based upon "pump and
dump", where the early investors quitely sell out to late stage
investors who keep putting money into a company with nothing to offer,
hopping that they can sell out to yet latter investors, or by some
miracle it will stumble upon a working technology.
I even know one company which bought the IP from a failed company
which was funded by the CSO. What are they doing? Trying for a second
shot of CSO money. I wish them luck.
Personally, I can't think of an open source product where someone is
not just pouring money into it and not making a real profit. Discount
those where the idea was to give away the program to sell hardware or
compete with an existing product. (OpenOffice.Org fits both of those.)
Geoff.
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geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com
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