You hit the nail on the head. -------------------------------------------------- Salvatore Giudice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VoIP Security Training, LLC http://VoIPSecurityTraining.com 848 N. Rainbow Blvd. #1676 Las Vegas, NV 89107 Phone: (702) 979-2906 Fax: (212) 279-2906 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Bosch Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:23 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Verizon-Vonage Lawsuit Salvatore Giudice wrote: > BTW, the main problem with these patents is that they tend to lower the rate > of adoption for new standards. Nothing kills a standard quicker than when > someone patents it. > > For example, someone out there even has a patent on ENUM: > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20060020713.html?highlight=enum&stemming=on > > It made me mad that he beat me to it. Roflol... Regardless, this won't help > with ENUM adoption. > > Any joker with about $6k per patent and some time on his hands to monitor > emerging standards can easily generate some patent entertainment for > themselves at the expense of others... > > So, the question of the day is: "Have you thought about patenting something > today?" > > It's easy. I just got a new idea while writing this for an ENUM related > patent that I may pursue at some point... =) The US patent system is totally broken. It started with lobbying efforts to relax the applicability rules for patents for short-term gain. In the long term, it's going to do big damage to American competitiveness. And that's the sad thing about this. It discourages actual innovation (despite Wall Street protests to the contrary). If everytime you want to build on somebody else's work you have to build a skein of licencing agreements, you start to ask yourself, "why should I bother?" More and more companies are answering that one with "We shouldn't" -- there's enough action to be had in other parts of the world, where the conditions are much less onerous. Another example of that kind of short-sighted thinking is what happened to the US crypto business when all the export controls were brought in. (A lot of damage was done in exchange for no demonstrable security benefit.) Obviously, a market that big and moneyed isn't going to be ignored: how can it be? But what used to be a no-brainer isn't so obvious anymore -- staying out of the US market is a serious option where it wasn't before, and that just leads to further Balkanization. It's fitting that an open source product like Asterisk is helping keep the US in the game. -Stephen- _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users