Comments on: Patently troublesome http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/11/17/patently-troublesome/ GStreamer and Collabora news and more Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:07:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luis http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/11/17/patently-troublesome/comment-page-1/#comment-647 Luis Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/11/17/patently-troublesome/#comment-647 As I see it, the current patent situation is similar to that of the atom bomb: Nobody actually wants to use it, but everyone wants to have it either to threaten those who doesn't have it or to stop threats from those who have it.<p/>Starting a patent war would have terrible consequences for everyone. Microsoft, who would be the biggest loser, knows this and will never start the war.<p/>So either we'll get to a state of equilibrium where "I won't sue you if you don't sue me" or we'll get rid of patents altogether (which is what will finally happen, in my opinion, though not too soon).<p/>For individual developers or small organizations this situation is a big problem, though (they don't have the atom bomb!) As I see it, the current patent situation is similar to that of the atom bomb: Nobody actually wants to use it, but everyone wants to have it either to threaten those who doesn’t have it or to stop threats from those who have it.

Starting a patent war would have terrible consequences for everyone. Microsoft, who would be the biggest loser, knows this and will never start the war.

So either we’ll get to a state of equilibrium where “I won’t sue you if you don’t sue me” or we’ll get rid of patents altogether (which is what will finally happen, in my opinion, though not too soon).

For individual developers or small organizations this situation is a big problem, though (they don’t have the atom bomb!)

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