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Re: Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text

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Post by robinsoh »

dredmorbius wrote: post #100
robinsoh wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you have a specific comment that discusses the objections to the e-ink patent encumbrance concept, please link them or make them again here. You seem to be intentionally engaging in a circular argument. The parent post said "after present patents expire". So please answer a simple question. Which specific patents are you referring to? Are you going to google and give a random list of eink patents? I hope you can…

Thank you. I was simply looking for the substantive version of your position. I believe you've expressed it.

OK. And you've not responded to the simple question of which patent you were referring to. That makes it clear of your 'substantive'ness and again is consistent with what I've observed on HN about this type of comments.

Re: Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text

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Post by dredmorbius »

Retric wrote: post #35
tpmx wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We really should shorten patent lifespans to like 10 years. And like 5 (or 0) years for pure software patents. Things are moving faster these days, with the interwebs and all.

It's less of a problem with how long patients last, instead it’s the ease and scope of patents granted.

Also a matter of how many patents are accumulated by a single entity.

In days of yore (and possibly still today), IBM would reach into its bag of thousands of patents, extract a handful, and allege infringement. The target might well successfully prove otherwise.

IBM would reach into its bag of thousands of patents, and extract another handful. The first defence had already cost the target several millions in litigation, not recoverable even on a finding of non-infringement.

This was explained to me in person by an individual with a long history of fighting such fights, back in the 1990s.

Re: Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text

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Post by dredmorbius »

robinsoh wrote: post #101
dredmorbius wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. I was simply looking for the substantive version of your position. I believe you've expressed it.

OK. And you've not responded to the simple question of which patent you were referring to. That makes it clear of your 'substantive'ness and again is consistent with what I've observed on HN about this type of comments.

See in part: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32486570

At this point, I'm investigating the issue. I don't jump immediately to conclusions. And I'd wanted, as noted several times above, simply to understand what your own argument / evidence is.

There's also a comment in HN history by an insider using a throwaway who discusses the dynamics by which control is exercised. And it's not through specific patents, as my comment linked above notes. Quantity has a quality all its own, as Stalin reputedly said.

I'm sure you can find it with as much ease as I'd turned up your own earlier relevant comments.

I suspect we'll have an opportunity to address this question again in future.

Re: Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text

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Post by robinsoh »

dredmorbius wrote: post #103
robinsoh wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK. And you've not responded to the simple question of which patent you were referring to. That makes it clear of your 'substantive'ness and again is consistent with what I've observed on HN about this type of comments.

See in part: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32486570 At this point, I'm investigating the issue. I don't jump immediately to conclusions. And I'd wanted, as noted several times above, simply to understand what your own argument / evidence is. There's also a comment in HN history by an insider using a throwaway who discusses the dynamics by which control is exercised. And it's not through specific patents, as my…

Could you state clearly that you are not an industry insider. You simply made a claim that patents were being used to block progress, but had no specific evidence for it. Correct? Very simple and allows readers to form their own conclusion about your allegations.

Re: Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text

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Post by ozzydave »

celie56 wrote: post #99
ozzydave wrote: post #65

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I’m doing the same, though I had to fork Yaft to get a bigger font.

Do you mind sharing your fork with the font change? I tried to get a font that supports other characters but the mkfont_bdf tool didn't like the files I fed it.

Here's a font that worked for me: ```curl -Lo spleen-16x32.bdf.bdf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fcambus/spleen/master/sple...```

Added a Dockerfile to make the build easier here: https://github.com/DaveHarrington/rM2-stuff

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