Does all innovation have to come to a screeching halt before our government will do their Constitutional duty and eliminate these laws which only serve to stifle innovation?
Honestly, software should not be patentable. Pure and simple.
And the worst part is that I am not even sure that this is software. It sounds more like ideas to me, which the last time I checked were not patentable.
Paul Allen has not worked at Microsoft in over 10 years, and only has shares in the company now. Due to stock links microsoft has with apple you may as well use the same RDF logic to claim Paul Allen is an apple employee too.
@nicolbolas "i should go back in time and copywrite the idea to "go to court with any parties due to possible using of copywrited ideas"
yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing. However coming up with a genuinely unique idea before anyone else that later becomes a logical commonplace idea / concept / process is actually quite hard. Challenge Accepted?
Paul Allen has not worked at Microsoft in over 10 years, and only has shares in the company now. Due to stock links microsoft has with apple you may as well use the same RDF logic to claim Paul Allen is an apple employee too.
@nicolbolas "i should go back in time and copywrite the idea to "go to court with any parties due to possible using of copywrited ideas"
yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing. However coming up with a genuinely unique idea before anyone else that later becomes a logical commonplace idea / concept / process is actually quite hard. Challenge Accepted?
it was more of the joke of, when ever someone has a lawsuite or pretty much any legal action like in in court, i would get paid lol... even if it had "against companies named Apple" i would be rich
plus ofc its hard to comup with good ideas.... it was a joke...
Paul Allen has not worked at Microsoft in over 10 years, and only has shares in the company now. Due to stock links microsoft has with apple you may as well use the same RDF logic to claim Paul Allen is an apple employee too.
@nicolbolas "i should go back in time and copywrite the idea to "go to court with any parties due to possible using of copywrited ideas"
yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing. However coming up with a genuinely unique idea before anyone else that later becomes a logical commonplace idea / concept / process is actually quite hard. Challenge Accepted?
Over 10 years? Paul Allen was out of Microsoft by 1983. They gave him a board position that he held until 2000.
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Does all innovation have to come to a screeching halt before our government will do their Constitutional duty and eliminate these laws which only serve to stifle innovation?
Honestly, software should not be patentable. Pure and simple.
And the worst part is that I am not even sure that this is software. It sounds more like ideas to me, which the last time I checked were not patentable.
I invented a "method for evacuating bowels in the bathroom while reading a magazine."
Paul Allen, you owe me $$$ !
How do you know he's infringing??
Any idea what that 'company' is?
something to do with multimedia or the web. it's there on his site of roughlydrafted.com
Tags, 'microsoft'.
Paul Allen has not worked at Microsoft in over 10 years, and only has shares in the company now. Due to stock links microsoft has with apple you may as well use the same RDF logic to claim Paul Allen is an apple employee too.
@nicolbolas "i should go back in time and copywrite the idea to "go to court with any parties due to possible using of copywrited ideas"
yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing. However coming up with a genuinely unique idea before anyone else that later becomes a logical commonplace idea / concept / process is actually quite hard. Challenge Accepted?
it's shit like this, AI!
Tags, 'microsoft'.
Paul Allen has not worked at Microsoft in over 10 years, and only has shares in the company now. Due to stock links microsoft has with apple you may as well use the same RDF logic to claim Paul Allen is an apple employee too.
@nicolbolas "i should go back in time and copywrite the idea to "go to court with any parties due to possible using of copywrited ideas"
yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing. However coming up with a genuinely unique idea before anyone else that later becomes a logical commonplace idea / concept / process is actually quite hard. Challenge Accepted?
it was more of the joke of, when ever someone has a lawsuite or pretty much any legal action like in in court, i would get paid lol... even if it had "against companies named Apple" i would be rich
plus ofc its hard to comup with good ideas.... it was a joke...
I invented a "method for evacuating bowels in the bathroom while reading a magazine."
Paul Allen, you owe me $$$ !
You are a genius, just let me get my cheque book
"It" was digital data in exactly the same manner as spoken words are digital data. IOW, "it" is as analog as the day is long..
Words are certainly digital data. So it's written on paper... so what.
"Browser for Use in Navigating a Body of Information, With Particular Application to Browsing Information Represented By Audiovisual Data."
Seems to me that an album jacket and a list of album tracks is generic and standard business process.
Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device.
Does Apple do this? Coulda fooled me.
Alerting Users to Items of Current Interest.
You mean like "those who bought X also bought Y"? We did that in '98 as well.
I've always liked Allen because he restored the Cinerama theatre in Seattle, but these lawsuits seem to be ridiculous, unless I'm missing something.
I invented a "method for evacuating bowels in the bathroom while reading a magazine."
Paul Allen, you owe me $$$ !
You're too kind by giving Allen the benefit of the doubt that he actually can read.
Apple has had just about the least effective legal team I've ever seen for a multi-billion dollar company. We'll see how they handle this.
Actually from what I have read, Apple has one of the meanest lawyers in the industry. Don't take my word for it but I read this somewhere on the net'.
it's shit like this, AI!
Tags, 'microsoft'.
Paul Allen has not worked at Microsoft in over 10 years, and only has shares in the company now. Due to stock links microsoft has with apple you may as well use the same RDF logic to claim Paul Allen is an apple employee too.
@nicolbolas "i should go back in time and copywrite the idea to "go to court with any parties due to possible using of copywrited ideas"
yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing. However coming up with a genuinely unique idea before anyone else that later becomes a logical commonplace idea / concept / process is actually quite hard. Challenge Accepted?
Over 10 years? Paul Allen was out of Microsoft by 1983. They gave him a board position that he held until 2000.