then we've actually created a lobbying group with a vested interest in keeping trolling alive
That was my first thought when reading this article. It's a shame that lobby groups can petition for outcomes that are worse for everybody but their broken business model - where profits are the only virtue worth considering.
Lobby groups for keeping marijuana illegal[0] perfectly describe this.
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, and any other big tech-player need to band together, form a lobby group, and destroy software patents. It should be in their best interests considering all the patent litigation that goes on among them.
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, and any other big tech-player need to band together...
But they won't - Microsoft and Apple are patent trolls themselves, now, and it won't be long until Google and Samsung join them.
It works like this. Startups have no patents, but as they grow and succeed they accumulate them. Eventually they get lazy and start to rely on their IP for income, rather than continuing to develop valuable new markets.
Microsoft is a great example of this arc, making more money licencing unspeakable patents to Android than they do from Windows Phone. Apple are going that way - their heyday is over and patents are becoming more important to them. Google is currently not over the hump yet, but give them ten years.
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That was my first thought when reading this article. It's a shame that lobby groups can petition for outcomes that are worse for everybody but their broken business model - where profits are the only virtue worth considering.
Lobby groups for keeping marijuana illegal[0] perfectly describe this.
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, and any other big tech-player need to band together, form a lobby group, and destroy software patents. It should be in their best interests considering all the patent litigation that goes on among them.
[0] http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/
But they won't - Microsoft and Apple are patent trolls themselves, now, and it won't be long until Google and Samsung join them.
It works like this. Startups have no patents, but as they grow and succeed they accumulate them. Eventually they get lazy and start to rely on their IP for income, rather than continuing to develop valuable new markets.
Microsoft is a great example of this arc, making more money licencing unspeakable patents to Android than they do from Windows Phone. Apple are going that way - their heyday is over and patents are becoming more important to them. Google is currently not over the hump yet, but give them ten years.