On Monday, June 04, 2012 09:13:21 PM Ed Nisley did opine: > On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 11:53 -0600, Jeshua Lacock wrote: > > you are basing this on what? > > Rumor, supposition, hearsay, random tales, and watching the slow-motion > destruction of mobile phone innovation through internecine IP warfare. > The fact that a judge had to rule that APIs can't be copyrighted tells > you pretty nearly everything you need to know about the state of the > art. > > Given the current attitude toward IP, there's no reason to expect > benevolent behavior from the major players. The only reason we don't see > lawyers catapulting over the parapets seems to be that the minor players > lack enough money to make it worthwhile... [grin] > > I've started reading the old 3D printing patents. It's heavy going, but > many of the clever ideas I've had / seen elsewhere seem to be covered. > Verily, there's little new under the sun and, of course, I'm now coated > with a thin layer of precious IP floobydust. > > As the saying goes: It's not whether you're paranoid, it's whether > you're paranoid *enough*.
Sometimes paranoia can get the better of a product too. One year, about 80 I think, I'm at the NAB show in Vegas, and I wander into the Microtime booth to be greeted by a device I had just built from scratch which aids the preparation of a commercial tape so it can function well with another of their products known as the automatic station break machine. The sales guy was waxing poetic about it and I was impressed by what it didn't do. So I proceeded to describe what my version was already doing that theirs was incapable of doing because mine was a one stop solution that Just Worked(TM). Confident that I had impressed the sales dweeb I left, intending to come back after he'd had a couple of hours to discuss buying my design with his powers that be. But the fact that I was obviously first and way ahead of their R&D must have scared them, because when I came back 2 hours later, it was gone, and when I asked about it, the reply was that it was a prototype they decided to cancel. And they never again came close to offering that packaged function again. Too bad, so sad, we both could have made a usable amount of money. But because I was obviously first, they ran like rats from a sinking ship. With my design & their advertising budget & manufacturing know how, we could truly have made a profitable splash. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> If you lose a son you can always get another, but there's only one Maltese Falcon. -- Sidney Greenstreet, "The Maltese Falcon" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
