Those with money don't want to fix it. So my thought is it has to be done legislatively but they don't have the stomach to upset anyone.
What I would like to see is a shortening of the patent duration. They still get it, and can make money and are protected in doing so, but then after say 3-5 years, it becomes public knowledge usable by anyone. But coming back to reality, I think we just have to wait until the giants have finished dancing, exchanged courtesies in the form of money, and are tired and want to do something else for a while. Sorry for the pessimism but given the happenings of the last 2 months, I don't think anything complicated is going to get solved any time soon if ever. On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Kirk <kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com www.sellerstoolbox.com -- 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.
