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Only secrets can do that
Authored by: The Cornishman on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 11:04 AM EDT
You know this already, if you think about it. If you have an idea, and you want
no-one to know about it, then keep it a secret. You can protect creative
expression with copyright, you can protect a novel invention with a patent, but
you can't protect an idea with either.

Half the problem with patents across the world is that people are inclined to
believe that they protect ideas. An idea cannot be stolen, it's a state of
mind. Only the exploitation of an idea is reserved to the author/inventor by the
grant of copyright or patent.

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The problem is, time
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 08:01 PM EDT
Sorry, but I don't think this is about fragmentation in the least. This is about
money...pure & simple...maybe also reputation but mainly money. As you
correctly point out fragmentation can't be 'battled' using the IP laws we
currently have...but Sun/Oracle want to make money off the language, the JVM
etc. rather than products built on top of those like everyone else...they wanted
a 'platform' to make scads of money (or so they thought) and they
failed...Google is making scads of money on their 'platform' (Android) but it
isn't directly the actual platform at all, they make barely anything from
Android itself.

Google promoted Android highly, they support developers, they give away tools
and compilers etc...and they are beating Oracle/Sun at this game...and that's
what likely sticks in Ellison's throat...he bought something for 'billions' but
actually has no real value...it's the community and what you can do with the
tools that has value.

Seriously, take a look at Android, people claim that it's 'fragmented' across
handsets...but I don't really see that at all...I have yet to run in to an App
that I couldn't run. And what do I really care if one handset maker has slightly
different widgets or features that they added...that's a good thing so that I
have what I want...not what Apple/Sun/Oracle what me to have.

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