Unless the customer site is a navy hospital, you are in the ER, and a general is watching over your shoulder. That was the longest 16 hours of my life.
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Patents inherently aren't evil. If I invent a machine to stop it from snowing on my driveway (yes, I'm in Canada:P), I don't want some other company to rip apart my machine and start building their own without having to go through the R&D that I went through. They don't have all of that invested money to make back, and so they sell it for 1/2 the price that I'm selling it for. Patents protect me from this.
If, however, I think of a machine to stop it from snowing on my driveway, patent it, and never develop the product, then that's evil. This is what NTP has done in this case.
Short reason: marketing. A whole pile of marketing people got paid a whole pile of money to come up with a product name. Worked pretty well too - as soon as you hear the word 'Blackberry', you know exactly what they are talking about.
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Much, much smaller numbers.
The US has about 10x the population of Canada.
Based on numbers from 2008, the US also has about 45-50x the number of firearms related deaths.
Unless the customer site is a navy hospital, you are in the ER, and a general is watching over your shoulder. That was the longest 16 hours of my life.
Patents inherently aren't evil. If I invent a machine to stop it from snowing on my driveway (yes, I'm in Canada :P), I don't want some other company to rip apart my machine and start building their own without having to go through the R&D that I went through. They don't have all of that invested money to make back, and so they sell it for 1/2 the price that I'm selling it for. Patents protect me from this.
If, however, I think of a machine to stop it from snowing on my driveway, patent it, and never develop the product, then that's evil. This is what NTP has done in this case.
Short reason: marketing. A whole pile of marketing people got paid a whole pile of money to come up with a product name. Worked pretty well too - as soon as you hear the word 'Blackberry', you know exactly what they are talking about.