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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 24 2013 @ 05:32 PM EST |
Donate is the wrong word because FRAND patent holders still hold and get paid
for patents but in general FRAND patent holders are not the bad guys.
Patents will exist paticularily in areas of rapdid technological development.
The benefits of volume production and network effects mean that there is an
overwhelming force towards standardisation in computer related areas not just
software. Frand mitigates the efect of de facto standards that cannot be easily
avoided to which large numbers of patents apply. The patent holders in these
cases are genuine developers who make real products to which the patents apply
and they undertake to be reasonable and non-dicrimatory. This is not earth
shaking altruism but it is better than nothing. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Donated? LMAO - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 24 2013 @ 06:43 PM EST
- Donated? LMAO - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 24 2013 @ 06:43 PM EST
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 12:15 AM EST |
Well, donated in the sense that they agree to
not try to get the highest price possible and
to license to anyone willing. Contrast would
be Apple, who have patents they won't license
to anybody.
I think sotware shouldn't be patentable subject
matter at all.
But as long as they exist, how fair is it to
let companies make promises based on a certain
understanding and then decide to change the
terms after that? If patents are a property
right, does it seem fair to you to just erase
someone else's property rights, just because
Microsoft doesn't want to pay?
Why not instead get rid of software patents,
or at least get rid of royalties for standards-
essential patents -- everybody's, not just
Motorolas? And if you say, we can't just
pull the rug out from under all those companies,
well, why Motorola, then?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: ukjaybrat on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 11:14 AM EST |
Motorola is way less evil than Microsoft in this
negotiation, but
don't for a minute start believing a
company holding standards-essential
allegedly-FRAND patents,
and who demonstrable is willing to use them in
litigation,
is "the good guy." They're the "less bad"
guy.
How else are you supposed to use patents? If using a patent
in litigation makes you a bad guy, how do you use a patent
as a good
guy?
Don't forget, this is Microsoft vs Motorola... as in,
Microsoft
initiated this battle. It's not like Motorola is
trolling around trying to
litigate money out of its
competition. The same can not, without a doubt, be
said
about Apple or Microsoft.
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IANAL [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Donated? LMAO - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 01:22 PM EST
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