You are right, but could be that not everybody does it intentionally,
even business people involved.
I have the feeling that some are just following the lead without
realizing that they are damaging innovation.
Anyway some business people don't realize that patent is nothing
without the money needed to protect it.
And patents - even of trivial things- are everything, if you are strong
and can use them to threaten and delay competitors.
In the past you needed capital investment in machinery to compete,
nowadays you need more and more
capital to pay people who fill papers in the most uncomprehensible way
(to make silly things look complicated)
and lawyers to defend those papers afterwards.
Paper skills instead of real skills.
Very sad indeed.
Massimo
On 16/apr/06, at 16:25, Sandwichman wrote:
But of course that's the intention.
On 4/16/06, Massimo Portolani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is very sad because it enables the greediest and richest to make
money from the obvious and freezes development.
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Sandwichman
