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Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

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Re: Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

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Post by mosselman »

There should be no copyrights, period. They are based on the idea of most people working in coalmines while 2 people are out there 'innovating' because they had rich parents and the fantasy in which we are all unique and all have unique ideas. Nowadays we can all be 'innovators'; or rather, we have enough wealth to be able to afford not spending all of our times slaving on our hands and knees and give our brains a little stroll in the park coming up with 'creative' ideas.

Lets face it, we are not unique and every idea you have was already had by someone else, or someone is having it right now, ideas are sluts that way. A big software project is just a stack of ideas. Rather than having to reinvent everything, and risk plagiarising anyway, lets just accept that the way we have come so far as humans has been to build on knowledge created by others.

Re: Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

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Post by L4mppu »

devmach wrote: post #41
emmelaich wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe German trademark law has been (ab)used, too, so don't think you're completely safe.

I'm aware that i'm not completely safe but from my perspective it looks like, if the situation affecting the economy , Europeans will react and do something about it. Patent trolling is a problem in U.S. since a long time but nobody want's to fix it. Politicians seems doesn't care, big corporations simply pay fees and reflect them to their customers or like in this case, companies let patent trolls screw their suppli…

Politicians won't care because corporations own them.

Re: Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

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Post by hagios »

neurotech1 wrote: post #47
hagios wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd donate at least a couple hundred a year if the FSF/EFF did this exactly.

EFF is involved in this https://www.eff.org/patent-busting Feel free to donate :)

Nifty, thanks! Emailed to see if there's a way to earmark my donation for this cause (since it'd be separate from a general donation).

Re: Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

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Post by monochromatic »

andrewfelix wrote: post #57
monochromatic wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no interest in opening myself up to spurious malpractice suits by paraphrasing the claims of this patent. It does appear, however, at a first glance, that they likely require more than "check[ing] a unique serial number securely, either over the phone or net."

So having only glanced at the patent yourself, you felt confident enough to criticize me? Do you honestly feel like you're adding to the discussion?

My comment started a discussion about what the claims mean. It got the people away from vague, incorrect allegations about what "the patent" covers.

I'd say that contributed.

Re: Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

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Post by Arelius »

mosselman wrote: post #81

There should be no copyrights, period. They are based on the idea of most people working in coalmines while 2 people are out there 'innovating' because they had rich parents and the fantasy in which we are all unique and all have unique ideas. Nowadays we can all be 'innovators'; or rather, we have enough wealth to be able to afford not spending all of our times slaving on our hands and knees and give our brains a li…

You say copyrights, but it seems very much that you mean patents. Could you clarify?

Re: Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

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Post by tomjen3 »

beering wrote: post #24
rossjudson wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 years ago I (and many others) had shareware registration systems that did this kind of thing. ShareIt ring a bell with anyone? There's absolutely no way that there isn't prior art for this.

Funnily enough, this patent was reexamined in 2011 and 100% reaffirmed.

No doubt it was "reaffirmed" along with a nice Don Perion and a cruise.

The amount of corruption in the current system is insane.

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Post by dsl »

chris_wot wrote: post #50
beering wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funnily enough, this patent was reexamined in 2011 and 100% reaffirmed.

And yet they missed obvious prior art. Thus shows the patent system is broken, nothing else.

If you have some specific evidence that the prior art did in fact apply please feel free to share it.

Dismissing the due process of a patent holder simply because you disagree with it and claiming the whole system broken because you didn't see the outcome you had hoped for is childish.

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