Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 15th May 2004 08:23 UTC
It is when I read articles like this that I have "my blood all going up to my head" (that's a Greek saying for people that get angry). So apparently, Apple is trying to patent "transparent windows that do a certain action after fading away". While I don't personally find this "innovation/invention" patentable, it's fine with me: Apple is doing the best it can to secure its business (maybe I would do the same if I had shareholders on my back).
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> The patent system should be abolished completely. Patents are not capable of protecting individuals and small companies against huge multinational companies, and protecting huge multinational companies against individuals is not in the public interest.
Just remember that multinational companies are just people at the end of the day. There are engineers and patent attorneys cooperating in filing and building patent portfolios - and making a living at the end of the day doing so.
How come you can't convince them to give up the system voluntarily, if the overall arguments are so apparent? You want to force removal upon them, and thus force their way of operating in the world to be removed? Isn't it true that while F/OSS is succesful, there are just as many examples of succesful closed shop software productions as well?
The different models can coexist.