dude, you're pretty fscking funny. ignorant, but pretty fscking funny. oh, and sign me up as a greedy scumbag evil pig, you immature twit.
I can understand people having problems with software patents as there's a lot of duplication of code/effort out there, but hardware patents are a much different thing. You can patent a particular implementation of a hardware system, but you can't patent the generic system idea. Hence AMD, Cyrix, etc. If I develop an idea for how to do something in hardware, I'm gonna patent it. If someone copies my way of doing it, I'll go after them. If someone comes up with another way to do the same thing, more power to them.
IP laws exist to prevent slimy cretins from getting rich off of other people's hardwork. It doesn't always work out quite that way, and there are some problems with it's current implementation, but IP law is not inherently evil in anyway.
I'd think that if you ever patented something, you'd want to take advantage of the protections it affords you, but I highly doubt you'll ever even have an idea worth patenting.
Incidentally, a lot of people have gotten rich off of slaughtering other people. It's the American way (tm).
> Yet while the ``Wintel'' duopoly of chip > colossus Intel Corp. and software giant > Microsoft Corp. are due credit for developing > the PC ``for the most of us,'' the importance of > design isn't lost on either of them.
Funny most histories of computing site Apple as having really developed the idea of the PC. And we all know how much Microsoft stole from Apple. And yet business people seem to have shorter memories than presidents...
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Actually, it's possible that you'd never see it. And therefore never be able to see whats going wrong if something bad happens. At least that's the way it works now with Plug and Pray monitors.
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Umm...isn't the the Playstation built from OTS HW plus some control ASICs?
dude, you're pretty fscking funny. ignorant, but pretty fscking funny. oh, and sign me up as a greedy scumbag evil pig, you immature twit.
I can understand people having problems with software patents as there's a lot of duplication of code/effort out there, but hardware patents are a much different thing. You can patent a particular implementation of a hardware system, but you can't patent the generic system idea. Hence AMD, Cyrix, etc. If I develop an idea for how to do something in hardware, I'm gonna patent it. If someone copies my way of doing it, I'll go after them. If someone comes up with another way to do the same thing, more power to them.
IP laws exist to prevent slimy cretins from getting rich off of other people's hardwork. It doesn't always work out quite that way, and there are some problems with it's current implementation, but IP law is not inherently evil in anyway.
I'd think that if you ever patented something, you'd want to take advantage of the protections it affords you, but I highly doubt you'll ever even have an idea worth patenting.
Incidentally, a lot of people have gotten rich off of slaughtering other people. It's the American way (tm).
Anybody know how Connectix developed their emulator?
This could be very interesting, considering the work by some to get rid of emulators for a lot of the old platforms.
> Yet while the ``Wintel'' duopoly of chip
> colossus Intel Corp. and software giant
> Microsoft Corp. are due credit for developing
> the PC ``for the most of us,'' the importance of > design isn't lost on either of them.
Funny most histories of computing site Apple as having really developed the idea of the PC. And we all know how much Microsoft stole from Apple. And yet business people seem to have shorter memories than presidents...
Actually, it's possible that you'd never see it. And therefore never be able to see whats going wrong if something bad happens. At least that's the way it works now with Plug and Pray monitors.