On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Miroslav Pokorny < miroslav.poko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I mentioned ARM as even though they are a hardware company they too exist > purely because of trust and excellence rather than patents. > I'll take your word for that but I'll offer something for you to think about: if they were located in a country with software patent laws, maybe they would be doing even better than they are right now, precisely because they are excellent. With software patent laws, they would be able to protect their excellent ideas for a few years, thereby guaranteeing more sales, more revenues, more funding for R&D, which would lead to even more innovations coming from them. I think that software patent laws help great companies while hindering mediocre ones (by preventing them from copying other people's ideas before they have been tapped). -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
