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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Do you really think anyone can get bought or supported by a big company just like that ???
And what if that doesn' t happen, or what if you want to retain the ownership of your product and run your own little company?
What happens if you don' have any innovation but you just want to use a xommon file format that has been passed from one firm to another one that does nothing in software development but snatching patents and enforcing them??? And they won' t even sell a licence to you because you are too small?
What happens then is that you are screw, and while they might not come right after you, you are in a bad legal possition with no way to change it, and that is bad for any bussiness.
Now, that situatuion is not made up by me, it is a real life case and the file format is the all too common, everyone' s beloved and granted, JPEG
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2002/07/19/suddenly_a_jpeg_patent_and_l...
Wake up, there is a trend of so called "companies" that make their bussiness out of this. >-(