You have to pay international cellphone charges to receive messages? That's screwed up.
As to IBM patenting stuff... this is true, but when's the last time you saw IBM try to use patents to put a competitor out of business? As far as I can see, it's done as a defensive measure and to gain reasonable licensing revenue, rather than to crush competition and abuse the industry. Maybe I've been to too many indoctrination sessions.
I'd still like software patents not to exist, of course. But given that they do, it's kinda necessary for IBM to patent stuff.
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Date: 2002-02-03 01:19 pm (UTC)As to IBM patenting stuff... this is true, but when's the last time you saw IBM try to use patents to put a competitor out of business? As far as I can see, it's done as a defensive measure and to gain reasonable licensing revenue, rather than to crush competition and abuse the industry. Maybe I've been to too many indoctrination sessions.
I'd still like software patents not to exist, of course. But given that they do, it's kinda necessary for IBM to patent stuff.