On Aug 9, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:03 +0200, Kirk wrote: > [ . . . ] > >> Long story short, this is not a nice system and the people playing are >> in it for the money and they don't give rats ass about you or your >> project or your IP or the guy or company they bought the patent off >> of, nor do they care about PR or just about anything else... only the >> lifestyle this broken system is going to fund for them. > > It is probably worth noting that patents legalize extortion, demanding > money with menaces, protection and racketeering: patents give a monopoly > that legalizes shakedowns. Interesting that the rest of most legal > systems relating to this sort of thing is all about controlling and > breaking up monopolies rather than helping to enforce them.
ain't that the truth! Now that we know who and what we are dealing with, how do we fix it? Regards, Kirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@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.
