I feel that most people don't really understand idea behind FRAND patents. It had two objectives:
1) Prevent war between 'gorillas'. All of them were putting major resources into R&D in hardware and FRAND patents allow them to share knowledge without heavy fighting of negotiations which would only filled lawyers pockets
2) Lower barriers for small players. With FRAND they can license necessary technology without breaking budget and allow to concentrate on product.
Now we have third situation: gorilla enters the fray and want to use FRAND system without paying entry fee (resources put into R&D). It is Apple which abuses FRAND system, not Motorola, Nokia, etc. If it wants to not be treated with contempt it should put their 'design patents' into FRAND pool.
So the materials best suited for distribution over a p2p network are 1. things you want as widely disseminated as possible and 2. things that don't have to be constantly updated and revised.
I don't understand. Is it sarcasm?
Now creator has no control over his work.
The company has the control. And in fact most of the artists are slaves of big companies.
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1) Prevent war between 'gorillas'. All of them were putting major resources into R&D in hardware and FRAND patents allow them to share knowledge without heavy fighting of negotiations which would only filled lawyers pockets
2) Lower barriers for small players. With FRAND they can license necessary technology without breaking budget and allow to concentrate on product.
Now we have third situation: gorilla enters the fray and want to use FRAND system without paying entry fee (resources put into R&D). It is Apple which abuses FRAND system, not Motorola, Nokia, etc. If it wants to not be treated with contempt it should put their 'design patents' into FRAND pool.
VI and emacs are free.
No, they're not free. There is a cost associated with them - the time to learn the commands.
Do you think VI or Emacs is more expensive than Visual Studio?
Uh, huh. And this in this IDE you will be able to code fluently from second 0?
Thank you for countless hours of information and procrastination.
Good luck!
Hmm, it sounds like SPAM :)
Minister is a _politician_ not civil servant...
Read something about history and politics before sending stupid posts...
I don't understand. Is it sarcasm? Now creator has no control over his work. The company has the control. And in fact most of the artists are slaves of big companies.
My Atari Portfolio! I'm proud of it.
Slightly off-topic (but not so much). Exists open source clone of Macromedia Director?
in USA exists a union of cover illustrators?