Enough Is Enough
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Enough Is Enough
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#2If you are at the end of a hard day's work, struggling with a tough problem and making no progress at all, even regressing at some points, take solace in this: you still did a lot more for the world than the guys at Lodsys
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#3Unfortunately, by choosing to license instead of crushing them early, companies like Google, Apple, IBM, Cisco and Accenture and government bodies like the IRS provided funding for the troll to grow and thrive.
It's relatively easy to say "enough is enough". Actually fighting back is harder and, at this point, almost impossible.
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#4If you are at the end of a hard day's work, struggling with a tough problem and making no progress at all, even regressing at some points, take solace in this: you still did a lot more for the world than the guys at Lodsys
I wonder what kind of job satisfaction being a valueless leech off society brings?
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#5Unfortunately, by choosing to license instead of crushing them early, companies like Google, Apple, IBM, Cisco and Accenture and government bodies like the IRS provided funding for the troll to grow and thrive. It's relatively easy to say "enough is enough". Actually fighting back is harder and, at this point, almost impossible.
Paying patent license fees is a lot like paying off terrorists in hopes they'll go away.
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#6If you are at the end of a hard day's work, struggling with a tough problem and making no progress at all, even regressing at some points, take solace in this: you still did a lot more for the world than the guys at Lodsys
I wonder what kind of job satisfaction being a valueless leech off society brings?
Apparently it doesn't bring enough guilt to offset the "driving my new Ferrari" satisfaction it brings...
Edit: A bit unfair and stereo-typing.. I'm sure there are good people working at Lodsys that got sucked in...
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#7Unfortunately, by choosing to license instead of crushing them early, companies like Google, Apple, IBM, Cisco and Accenture and government bodies like the IRS provided funding for the troll to grow and thrive. It's relatively easy to say "enough is enough". Actually fighting back is harder and, at this point, almost impossible.
Paying patent license fees is a lot like paying off terrorists in hopes they'll go away.
For the big companies, it's probably a lot more like paying off terrorists with hundreds of nuclear silos in hopes that they won't nuke you. The settlement they want is miniscule compared to the damage they can do to you.
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#8Unfortunately, by choosing to license instead of crushing them early, companies like Google, Apple, IBM, Cisco and Accenture and government bodies like the IRS provided funding for the troll to grow and thrive. It's relatively easy to say "enough is enough". Actually fighting back is harder and, at this point, almost impossible.
Paying patent license fees is a lot like paying off terrorists in hopes they'll go away.
Sounds more like organized crime than terrorism, with the legal system as the enforcers.
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#9Unfortunately, by choosing to license instead of crushing them early, companies like Google, Apple, IBM, Cisco and Accenture and government bodies like the IRS provided funding for the troll to grow and thrive. It's relatively easy to say "enough is enough". Actually fighting back is harder and, at this point, almost impossible.
> Unfortunately, by choosing to license instead of crushing them early, companies like Google, Apple, IBM, Cisco and Accenture and government bodies like the IRS provided funding for the troll to grow and thrive.
Reality is a bit more complex: none of those licensed from Lodsys, instead they have blanket licenses to all IP of Intellectual Ventures (the biggest patent troll in the world) as part of their initial investment in the company (a number of large, patent-warring company invested in IV, probably in the hope of weaponizing it down the road). And Abelow '078 was assigned to a (patent sub-troll) front company of IV (Ferrata Ethereal), therefore being accounted to as part of IV licensing. Which is why Apple, Google and Microsoft have licenses to Abelow '078.
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#10What does VC mean? Vinylchlorid?