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As a software developer you're playing a round of roulette for every 10k you make. As noble as what you're saying sounds, nobody wants to be a casualty of war.
It's not a casualty. It's a cause. What is there to lose? The laws are already imprisoning us. Might as well see it through.
The moral of the story is don't develop software unless you have the resources to fight patent lawsuits. I haven't, so I don't.
you mean dont do it in USA , the so-called land of opportunities ...
Mojang are not in the US.
Maybe companies threatened by patents could motivate the public by preventing US citizens from having access to those companies' software for a week, but that's unlikely to happen.
I honestly don't even know what to say when these things come up nowadays. It just seems like the bullshit won't end. I can't think of any options that even exist to fix this broken patent system.
It's as if some sort of patent "tragedy" would need to happen, such as an extremely popular application used by multiple voting blocs be shut down, an application whose absence would set off a larger popular response. However, the owner of such an application would have to somehow be vulnerable, and I'm not sure what's out there that would match this criteria. Certainly not a Google or Microsoft, to state the obvious…
"Just think about the logic here. The people complaining about the law suits here are complaining that a company is trying to protect it's own right to make a living from a technology that the patent office has verified as unique and novel. If you disagree then track the patent office and voice your problems with the patents as they are published." Because the patent office verified it as "novel," that's the reason h…
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You'd spend more money suing the patent troll organizations than you'd ever recover, because they could just close up shop and move on, being non-practicing entities with no real assets or holdings.
In other words, you put that entity out of business. Sounds like success!
The moral of the story is don't develop software unless you have the resources to fight patent lawsuits. I haven't, so I don't.
The moral of the story is don't develop software unless you have the resources to fight patent lawsuits. I haven't, so I don't.
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you mean dont do it in USA , the so-called land of opportunities ...
The article mentions Mojang and Uniloc suing for the '067 patent. Mojang are not in the US. Maybe companies threatened by patents could motivate the public by preventing US citizens from having access to those companies' software for a week, but that's unlikely to happen.
I hope there's more to this story, because otherwise that is a mind-bogglingly stupid move. Talk about a chilling effect.
I'm not really sure on this, but Uniloc owner Ric Richardson doesn't seem prima facie to fit the normal patent troll profile: he appears to be a bona fide inventor, but then I only looked at wikipedia and his blog http://ricrichardson.blogspot.co.uk/ . Doesn't mean I support his action, of course and the whle legal system is fcked, hence the problem of the trolls, like Nathan Myrhvold's "Intellectual Ventures" https:…
Not sure what constitutes a bona fida inventor but the first post on his blog is how he has just taken out a patent on another invention.
It seems he just invents stuff to then patent it. To me an inventor builds things. This is more akin to coming up with an idea and then cutting off anybody from every executing that idea without even having executed it yourself.