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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 09:04 AM EDT |
OK, let's take that as a given then. Given that it's the case that these
defensive and offensive business strategies are genuine and effective, then it
implies that business strategy is overruling the needs and expressed worries of
software engineers in those megacorps.
I don't believe that those people would be silent, from personal experience. I
wasn't silent myself on the two occasions when I worked for a megacorp.
Admittedly I was freelance, and contractors are happier to rock the boat than
permanent staff, but I also witnessed no shortage of permanent staff who
routinely gave top management something to think about by shooting sacred cows
internally. (The subject wasn't patents, but that experience still applies ---
many software experts will be telling their megacorp CEOs that software patents
are a disaster to the future of software engineering, ie. to their own future.)
The conclusion seems to be that the CEOs or the board members who establish
business policy are dismissing those expressions of concerns because they are
less important than the benefits of deploying patent weaponry. Well perhaps,
but that can't go on forever without the best people leaving in disgust at their
management, and it can't continue too long before the greener pastures for
software developers outside the US start to matter.
The "boiling frog slowly" story may be apocryphal rather than
accurate, but it may apply in this case anyway. The US software industry is
going down, because the big patent cannons that the megacorps are firing are
also damaging their own foundations.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 05:56 PM EDT |
It's now perfectly standard for any small software shop to move abroad before
they do anything else. There are entire businesses catering to assisting US
programmers in offshoring their operations.
The patent nonsense is quite literally killing the US software industry. Should
be interesting to find out when Google decides to move abroad.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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