| First the US software industry was crippled by patents, but the knockout blow
can now be seen to be copyrighted APIs. But software developed in the EU and
elsewhere will not be able to be sold in the US, while any US software companies
are still around to sue for API copying, so anything that needs software will
become impossible to do. That will resolve itself once the last US based
software company has enetered Chapter 7, and there is no funding available for
the lawyers. Hopefully, long before that happens, the US government will wake
up and see that laws made by them, and/or wrongly interpreted by the courts, are
destroying the industry, and will do something about it. No-one, except maybe
the last half dozen Communists somehwere or other, and a few nutters, wants to
see the US reduced to a technologicaly backward country. It would be bad for the
whole world, the civilised part at least. Thus far, the best government that
money can but has failed miserably to grasp the problem, but when jobs are lost,
causing votes to be lost, they may begin to notice. When the campaign funding
from the likes of M$ dries up, then there will be action.... But first, I
see that a German court has kicked the vile bullying Monopoly very hard. They
will likely go bleating to the government they have paid for, and there may be a
bit of tension between the US and Germany, even a trade war. Meanwhile, Germany,
freed from the ability to procure two products of the vile Monopoly, will
flourish. Whe actually needs Windoze 7 or the X Box 360? We live in
exciting times, and a terible legal and political mess is surely coming. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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