Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
+0200 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature: rover missions. Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar

Re: “In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword” - New York Times Feature

2012-10-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Geoffrey, On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:02:18 +0200 Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: One proponent of software patents on this list is Geoffrey, who claims it helped protect some obscure startups against people copying their ideas. However, given

Re: “In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword” - New York Times Feature

2012-10-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11 October 2012 19:41, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Just a note: one should never write perl or Perl in all-capital letters: http://perl-begin.org/learn/Perl-perl-but-not-PERL/ Writing PERL is usually an indication that the person does not really know what they are talking

Re: “In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword” - New York Times Feature

2012-10-11 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.orgwrote: Hi Geoffrey, On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:02:18 +0200 Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: One proponent of software patents on this list is Geoffrey, who claims it helped

Re: “In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword” - New York Times Feature

2012-10-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hello Amos, On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:12:05 +1100 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 October 2012 19:41, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Just a note: one should never write perl or Perl in all-capital letters: http://perl-begin.org/learn/Perl-perl-but-not-PERL/

Re: “In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword” - New York Times Feature

2012-10-11 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Shlomi Fish wrote: “Pearl” was chosen after the Parable of the Pearl from the Gospel of Matthews: If we are being pedantic, it's The Gospel of Matthew, or Matthew's Gospel. There was only one of them. (Matthew or gospel). Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379

Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 07:23:51PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: | http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/google-closes-12-5-billion-deal-to-buy-motorola-mobility/ | (last visited May 24, 2012). Google has since said that of the $12.5B, $5.5 were | for

“In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword” - New York Times Feature

2012-10-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, LWN.net mentions here - http://lwn.net/Articles/518936/ - that the New York Times published a feature against software patents: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html?_r=0 It also gives one especially damning quote: « In

Re: “In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword” - New York Times Feature

2012-10-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Shlomi Fish wrote: One proponent of software patents on this list is Geoffrey, who claims it helped protect some obscure startups against people copying their ideas. However, given the huge and increasing spending on patent litigation, the problem of patent trolls and the fact that “In

Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature: rover missions. Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research

Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:09:55PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature: rover missions. Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits

Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: | http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/google-closes-12-5-billion-deal-to-buy-motorola-mobility/ | (last visited May 24, 2012). Google has since said that of the $12.5B, $5.5 were | for patents, which is still a staggering sum. No, it's not. It's actually a meager