people may never have liked bill gates, but it seemed that microsoft was the toast of the tech world just after windows 95 came out. the company was celebrated for features and usability the average consumer hadn't seen (regardless of who really invented/created them). windows 95 did wonders for home PC sales and - at least in the short term - public perception of microsoft was positive.
go back further, an ibm was once seen as the center of innovation. they still make billions in the tech industry, but the perception is that of being the tech company of a previous generation.
people may not come to "hate" apple or google. governments may not target and prosecute them as severely as microsft has been. but like any other entity the public favors, popularity will inevitably fade.
Scapegoat yes. But the situation is worse than just pointing at some random country and making US citizens fear them for one's own political gain.
Obviously, there seem to be some very resourceful and intelligent Iranians hard at work. In the stone age? I think not. Shouldn't we be looking to work with nations with such people? Shouldn't we be hiring them or recruiting them since most Americans are too lazy or apathetic to know that a "home-built" supercomputer with giga-flop speed capabilities is actually quite an achievement?
You're right. Instead we just say sit back and let politicians use hearsay (or pure fabrication) to say "look! smart foreigners! i mean - evil genuises. no wait -just evil. evil, evil, evil. they want the bomb! they want to spend billions of dollars and years of work to blow us up! and then... blow up other stuff... until there is no stuff..." Pathetic.
Anyone ready to send their resume to Googleplex Tehran?
... will find that the word 'iPhone' is both the most searched for and most common word found on the Internet - replacing the ten year reign of 'free porn.'
Such disappointment that the author not only contributes to The Great iHype, but placed it first.
The subtext of this message is that IBM is stressing that no one ELSE hoard patents. I don't think they are seeing any negative repurcussions of the "patent app bombing" mentioned. On the contrary, I believe that they are seeing how easy (read: profitable) it is to capatilize on development going on in other companies. It adds an incalculable factor of work they profit off of, since it includes work that can go on in any other company.
The problem is that it forces up-and-coming players to pay hefty licensing or purchasing fees. Or it forces those smaller players to abandon their designs because IBM is playing the proverbial "I called it first!" game with patents.
I have worked closely with several IBM employees and what I have learned is that there is a ridiculous internal push for patent applications... keeping IBM #1 in patents year after year. Yet, once a patent is granted, it sits and collects dust until some other company wants to pay a hefty price to license or purchase the patent. There is rarely any effort to put accepted patents to fruition.
If a company pushes patent apps for the purpose of expanding its market or looking for new solutions, that's fine. But when it is used simply as an additional source of income, it stifles technological progress and development for the rest of us. Who does IBM think they're kidding?
I know I can't be the first one to think about this... but do you think this may be a little April Fool's Joke Apple is playing on ThinkSecret. With all the legal stuff going on between them, wouldn't a nice countermeasure be to start to tack away at ThinkSecret's credibility with false, high profile rumors? Whaddya think?
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people may never have liked bill gates, but it seemed that microsoft was the toast of the tech world just after windows 95 came out. the company was celebrated for features and usability the average consumer hadn't seen (regardless of who really invented/created them). windows 95 did wonders for home PC sales and - at least in the short term - public perception of microsoft was positive.
go back further, an ibm was once seen as the center of innovation. they still make billions in the tech industry, but the perception is that of being the tech company of a previous generation.
people may not come to "hate" apple or google. governments may not target and prosecute them as severely as microsft has been. but like any other entity the public favors, popularity will inevitably fade.
Scapegoat yes. But the situation is worse than just pointing at some random country and making US citizens fear them for one's own political gain.
Obviously, there seem to be some very resourceful and intelligent Iranians hard at work. In the stone age? I think not. Shouldn't we be looking to work with nations with such people? Shouldn't we be hiring them or recruiting them since most Americans are too lazy or apathetic to know that a "home-built" supercomputer with giga-flop speed capabilities is actually quite an achievement?
You're right. Instead we just say sit back and let politicians use hearsay (or pure fabrication) to say "look! smart foreigners! i mean - evil genuises. no wait -just evil. evil, evil, evil. they want the bomb! they want to spend billions of dollars and years of work to blow us up! and then... blow up other stuff... until there is no stuff..." Pathetic.
Anyone ready to send their resume to Googleplex Tehran?
... will find that the word 'iPhone' is both the most searched for and most common word found on the Internet - replacing the ten year reign of 'free porn.'
Such disappointment that the author not only contributes to The Great iHype, but placed it first.
The subtext of this message is that IBM is stressing that no one ELSE hoard patents. I don't think they are seeing any negative repurcussions of the "patent app bombing" mentioned. On the contrary, I believe that they are seeing how easy (read: profitable) it is to capatilize on development going on in other companies. It adds an incalculable factor of work they profit off of, since it includes work that can go on in any other company. The problem is that it forces up-and-coming players to pay hefty licensing or purchasing fees. Or it forces those smaller players to abandon their designs because IBM is playing the proverbial "I called it first!" game with patents. I have worked closely with several IBM employees and what I have learned is that there is a ridiculous internal push for patent applications... keeping IBM #1 in patents year after year. Yet, once a patent is granted, it sits and collects dust until some other company wants to pay a hefty price to license or purchase the patent. There is rarely any effort to put accepted patents to fruition. If a company pushes patent apps for the purpose of expanding its market or looking for new solutions, that's fine. But when it is used simply as an additional source of income, it stifles technological progress and development for the rest of us. Who does IBM think they're kidding?
I know I can't be the first one to think about this... but do you think this may be a little April Fool's Joke Apple is playing on ThinkSecret. With all the legal stuff going on between them, wouldn't a nice countermeasure be to start to tack away at ThinkSecret's credibility with false, high profile rumors? Whaddya think?