Oh, it's doable... with money to hire "expert witnesses", and lawyers, and court fees, and so forth!
Patents like this are one of my big, big gripes: they're a huge drag on productive entrepreneurship, because of the costs and risks involved with tracking them down and dodging or fighting them.
Oh, it's doable... with money to hire "expert witnesses", and lawyers, and court fees, and so forth!
My point exactly. :)
I agree with everything you mention, which is why I made my comment in the first place. The most profitable business strategy in any economy is to become entrenched and to stick your collective dick into as many pies as possible while nobody's watching, then make "who, me?" faces.
I really don't care any more. I stopped working for them years ago. The management class there has absolutely no idea how to listen to anyone, and that includes each other. I really liken their continued existence to sheep throwing themselves at an electric fence until there are enough dead sheep on the fence that the others can get over it.
The never-faulty Wikipedia says they made their first annual profit in aught three, though they're still $1.58 billion in the hole since Bozos launched it.
The fence business strategy you mention sounds like a lot of giant corporations, actually.
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Date: 2008-02-02 04:22 pm (UTC)Patents like this are one of my big, big gripes: they're a huge drag on productive entrepreneurship, because of the costs and risks involved with tracking them down and dodging or fighting them.
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Date: 2008-02-03 01:19 am (UTC)My point exactly. :)
I agree with everything you mention, which is why I made my comment in the first place. The most profitable business strategy in any economy is to become entrenched and to stick your collective dick into as many pies as possible while nobody's watching, then make "who, me?" faces.
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Date: 2008-02-03 01:14 am (UTC)The fence business strategy you mention sounds like a lot of giant corporations, actually.