As a small inventor, without a salary and self-funding my patenting, my hope is that my fellow engineers who support the little guy will look critically at the line that the large players are feeding them. The patent system works fine for the small guy who doesn't have money.
NTP and their ilk go after the big guys, who couldn't care less about anyone else. The big guys would be happy to see the patent system defanged, because then money decides, and the small players like me can be swatted aside, whereas now they have to think twice before they copy a good idea.
This is not to say I think things are hunky dory right now - the whole NTP thing could have been prevented if the patent office has enough money to speed review (oh wait, the big boys aren't actually clamoring for more money for the patent office, because that way the machine can break down more spectacularly); an open-publication with open review of filed patents as the IEEE is proposing.
But I am saying that the big boys are using those legitimate issues as a smokescreen for the real goal - make it easier to screw over the small inventors.
I love Google and use its search engine exclusively. But I can't stand their dual hypocrisy - to wit:
The refusal for giving data over a subpoena to the US Government has nothing to do with my privacy. See this NY Times article. I hate the fact that Google is pretending that this has anything to do with my privacy. Come on Google, we're not that stupid - if you're worried about your trade secrets, fine, just say so. Don't pretend you're protecting me.
Rolling over and panting with eagerness to help the communist goons in China hardly qualifies as doing no evil. The whole point of Google's stock structure where the shares of Brin/Page/Schmidt (see here)
are worth 10 times the ordinary schmo's shares voting-wise was precisely because they said that this way they could run the company they way they wanted without worrying what the shareholders thought. The only conclusion is that Google wants to be communist enforcers, and is too worried about their valuation to stand up for core values.
If they hadn't set out promising what they did, I don't think I would have cared. But they did, and it was a factor in my liking them. How different are they from that faker Frey?
Also, I want to ask the Google apologists - how many of you work for Google? If you do, then stop eating the free food and drinking the kool aid.
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NTP and their ilk go after the big guys, who couldn't care less about anyone else. The big guys would be happy to see the patent system defanged, because then money decides, and the small players like me can be swatted aside, whereas now they have to think twice before they copy a good idea.
This is not to say I think things are hunky dory right now - the whole NTP thing could have been prevented if the patent office has enough money to speed review (oh wait, the big boys aren't actually clamoring for more money for the patent office, because that way the machine can break down more spectacularly); an open-publication with open review of filed patents as the IEEE is proposing.
But I am saying that the big boys are using those legitimate issues as a smokescreen for the real goal - make it easier to screw over the small inventors.
- The refusal for giving data over a subpoena to the US Government has nothing to do with my privacy. See this NY Times article. I hate the fact that Google is pretending that this has anything to do with my privacy. Come on Google, we're not that stupid - if you're worried about your trade secrets, fine, just say so. Don't pretend you're protecting me.
- Rolling over and panting with eagerness to help the communist goons in China hardly qualifies as doing no evil. The whole point of Google's stock structure where the shares of Brin/Page/Schmidt (see here)
are worth 10 times the ordinary schmo's shares voting-wise was precisely because they said that this way they could run the company they way they wanted without worrying what the shareholders thought. The only conclusion is that Google wants to be communist enforcers, and is too worried about their valuation to stand up for core values.
If they hadn't set out promising what they did, I don't think I would have cared. But they did, and it was a factor in my liking them. How different are they from that faker Frey?Also, I want to ask the Google apologists - how many of you work for Google? If you do, then stop eating the free food and drinking the kool aid.