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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 08:05 AM EST |
Anything which dilutes the profit stream is harmful to some mindsets. Therefore,
to them, all competition must be prevented or destroyed.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, January 22 2013 @ 04:46 AM EST |
The patented inventions are selected by the technology experts of the world,
working in international standards bodies, as the best way of getting a field of
technology to work. FRAND is a reasonable way of making sure new entrants to the
field can be commercially successful.
Trolls cannot get a look in to world technology standards. Trolls can only abuse
patents to kill world standards in the country within which they operate.
FRAND still ties technology to proprietary and excludes free and open. Free as
in libre and beer is best.
If Apple and Microsoft enter a new market (they are both new entrants to making
mobile phones - give it a month or two!) and they both refuse to negotiate a
FRAND licence for those essential inventions, then, of course, they should have
their access to that technology market shut down by injunctions.
If the US courts continue to defeat the international standards groups FRAND
position, then there will be no international standards for technology.
Companies like Microsoft and Apple will monopolise US technology markets, stifle
the technology in the US and then die. The rest of the world will move on. The
US cannot survive as a closed market if it wishes to continue to import cheap
technology and to sell to the much larger rest of the world market.
Just watch what is happening with Microsoft operating systems and Apple mobile
platforms. Still big in the US. Becoming irrelevant in the rest of the world.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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