On Thursday, February 19, 2015 03:00:10 AM Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On 2/18/2015 7:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 08:50:21 PM Gregg Eshelman wrote: > >> On 2/18/2015 7:07 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> In any event, I still think you paint them (Tormach) with much too > >>> black a brush. > >> > >> The company that deserves that is Makerbot. Another one is RAMBUS, > >> where when Intel, Micron and some other companies went together to > >> create a new computer memory standard to replace SDRAM, one member > >> sneakily filed patents and trademarks on it all, then proceeded to > >> file lawsuits. > > > > Quite familiar with the RAMBUS debacle, but MakerBot seems to be a > > new entry in the extra rectums dept. Links plz, I like to stay > > reasonably up to date. But if no great coverage on slashdot, I've > > likely slept thru it. My fault of course, but... ;-) > > Makerbot was an early adopter and commercializer of the DIY Fusion > Deposition Manufacturing technology, once the RepRap project got to the > point of producing fully functional 3D printer designs. > > Look up makerbot patent controversy > > Makerbot was bought by 3D Systems. One of their products is a > ridiculously overpriced 3D laser scanner, which can be built far > cheaper with a turntable, any decent USB video camera, a laser line > level and some free software.
IOW, these -----bags used the same principles that RAMBUS used. BTDT. So I have to relate a story of a similar happening. Back in the last decade of the last century, when the FCC re-wrote the EAS rules to make it far more informative, someone overheard a conversation in the coffee shop, scribbled it down on a napkin and ran to the patent office to patent the basic premise. All of the broadcasters then had to spend 4 digit figures for new equipmeht. Our outlay was about $6,000 by the time we got it all hooked up as there were interface incompatibilities in all the offered devices. But we made it work, that is what we do. About 3 years later, this submarine patent holder surfaces and demands a use royalty of about $25,000 a year from every broadcaster in the country. Most of us ignored the letter, but most of us also picked up the phone and bored the FCC a new, seriously over sized rectum, we were not about to be mandated to do this conversion by a government agency, at our expense, and then be billed for a use royalty _after_ the fact. The FCC then went to the patent office with reams of prior art and managed to get them to invalidate the patent in record time, as in about 3 weeks after they whammed all the exhibits on the counter with suitable amounts of smoke emanating from their ears. The patent holder, a Dimension something or other, took it to court and the judge spanked them verbally and with a hefty fine for wasting the courts time according to what we read in the industry rags later. Since I had been quite vocal, getting ink in the industry rags on a couple different subjects, this being one of them, I'll have to admit my grin was a bit wider than my face had room for. There is fair. And there is not. And there are a huge surplus of MBA's who will do anything to make a dollar, whether its fair and moral or not. Their view is its ok, if you don't get caught. We need to bring back public hangings. It would go a long ways, properly applied, toward cleaning the gene pool. It would make a much bigger impression on the wannabe's than a quiet room in the courthouse basement with only 4 or 5 witnesses & a shot or a shock. I don't think they are serious, but some in Utah are making noise about bringing back the firing squad. Either way, the key word is Public. Hiding it as we are want to do, only sends a faint whisper, when we need super bowl stadium level shouts. But thats just me. Sigh. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
