[QUOTE=Dj-J3;29353837]Patents are stupid.[/QUOTE]
Don't get me started on medical patents.
Medicine that could easily help sick & poor people are overpriced because of patents.
[QUOTE=Van-man;29353873]Don't get me started on medical patents.
Medicine that could easily help sick & poor people are overpriced because of patents.[/QUOTE]
yeah and it wouldn't get developed if it wasn't expensive at release because y'know companies kinda do need to make up all of the money they spent researching it and incentive to do it more
i think five years is acceptable for the patent system
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;29353945]yeah and it wouldn't get developed if it wasn't expensive at release because y'know companies kinda do need to make up all of the money they spent researching it and incentive to do it more
i think five years is acceptable for the patent system[/QUOTE]
Problem is, there's pretty much ancient patents still hampering people in 3rd world countries from getting a treatment they can afford.
Obviously they should get profit for their research, but the medicine industry is almost completely controlled by heartless douchebags only thinking about maximizing profit.
So i write a piece of code i need to check other peoples code to see if its not similar so i wouldnt get sued
In before Google buys out Bedrock Computer Technologies, and reconfigures the entire company as the new regional headquarters.
For North Korea.
Building also placed in North Korea.
Patents are used not to protect your original idea but to control market and profit from lawsuits.
Kinda sad, patenting is a good concept on paper.
[QUOTE=Van-man;29355163]Problem is, there's pretty much ancient patents still hampering people in 3rd world countries from getting a treatment they can afford.
Obviously they should get profit for their research, but the medicine industry is almost completely controlled by heartless douchebags only thinking about maximizing profit.[/QUOTE]
really? I thought that the limit now was 5 years and then after that point no-name brands could copy the recipe
infringing a patent related to the Linux kernel
:rolleye:
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;29357859]really? I thought that the limit now was 5 years and then after that point no-name brands could copy the recipe[/QUOTE]
That's not everywhere it's like that.
Generally we need one set of international laws for patents, with exemptions for poor countries not being able to afford the initial expensive price of essential & lifesaving medicine.
[QUOTE=TheForeigner;29355909]So i write a piece of code i need to check other peoples code to see if its not similar so i wouldnt get sued[/QUOTE]
This is crazy, and I can't believe any court would uphold this.
[editline]22nd April 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Kwaq;29357929]infringing a patent related to the Linux kernel
:rolleye:[/QUOTE]
The article is saying something more along the lines of the Linux kernel that they are using contains code which infringes upon someones patent. If their kernel were not open source, they may never have been sued at all. So if you try to do something good by leaving your code open source, you end up getting sued by money hungry patent holders...
I lol'd when they went on to say the same company sued pretty much every other large company in the world, they're obviously not just out to make a quick buck.
I honestly don't understand the Oracle part.
You can't sell Java programmed products?
[QUOTE=TurbisV2;29360676]I honestly don't understand the Oracle part.
You can't sell Java programmed products?[/QUOTE]
Minecraft.
[QUOTE=TurbisV2;29360676]I honestly don't understand the Oracle part.
You can't sell Java programmed products?[/QUOTE]
They included Oracle's product as a part of their own product and sold is as their own product.
5 Million is a penny in Googles terms.
[QUOTE=TurbisV2;29360676]I honestly don't understand the Oracle part.
You can't sell Java programmed products?[/QUOTE]
The decompiled some of the java.lang classes and released the source as their own code IIRC. (The original java.lang classes weren't open source)
And I think I read somewhere that this suit was over the idea behind a HashMap, which most modern programming languages use.
[editline]25th April 2011[/editline]
yep, it's over this:
[quote]methods and apparatus for information storage and retrieval using a hashing technique with external chaining and on-the-fly removal of expired data.[/quote]
[url]http://nexus404.com/Blog/2011/04/22/google-fined-5-million-linux-patent/[/url]
They also sued Amazon, Softlayer, PayPal, AOL and Yahoo! for the same patent infringement, and I think Red Hat sued Bedrock for patent invalidity some time ago.
Calling Google buying up Bedrock Computer Tech and continue to sue.
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