tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534765709337552753.post1810108533673517404..comments2023-08-21T03:20:34.326-04:00Comments on ihumanable: making a sandwichMatt Nowackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00930543505232276126noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534765709337552753.post-83363667546495449262009-12-16T07:14:41.000-05:002009-12-16T07:14:41.000-05:00And it's not even usual!Far from it - it is th...And it's not even usual!<br>Far from it - it is the norm to patent rather obvious ideas, then go out and sue everyone who's not on a tree by three!<br>Eoals' "AJAX Patent" is just one example. It's not only quite common sense, it also looks very much as if someone just rewrote X's client/server concept for web-sites/browsers. Which in turn was an update on the multi-user-box/dumb-terminals paradigm of the minicomputer era.<br>For another example, take Red Bend's suing Google over Chrome's differential update mechanism. How TF is something like that worth a patent? C'mon, this is getting ridiculous!<br>Also, hot off the press: BetaNet LLC and their patent on remote software installation and registration.<br><br>I'm gonna register a patent on ripping off productive companies and individuals, and preventing market entry of potential competitors by filing a description of an idea ("intellectual property") at a central register and suing everyone who uses that idea, however obvious it may be. I think I'll call it "patenting".0ffhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534765709337552753.post-33301214612656779612009-12-16T07:17:27.000-05:002009-12-16T07:17:27.000-05:00Thanks for writing this. What Eolas Technologies ...Thanks for writing this. What Eolas Technologies Inc. is trying to do (suing every website that uses AJAX) is the funniest thing I've read all week. Have you seen their company website (http://www.eolas.com/index.html)? It's the crappiest website I've seen all year. I wonder if they even employ anyone who knows JavaScript.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534765709337552753.post-35652452720093141692009-12-16T10:07:57.000-05:002009-12-16T10:07:57.000-05:00I recently wrote a blog post on this very same top...I recently wrote a blog post on this very same topic, entitled, "Persistent Folders: Or, why ideas don't matter, and execution does".<br><br>http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2009/12/11/ideas-and-execution<br><br>Snippet: """I recently had a discussion with another engineer after I had discussed some of the technology behind Parse.ly with him. He was surprised at how liberal I was with explaining our internal implementation, architecture, and algorithms. He asked me, "Aren't you worried that I could steal your idea?"<br><br>I responded, "You can steal it all you want; I dare you to try and implement it!" I then explained that to me, ideas don’t matter. I had the idea for a hundred startups that now exist before they started. I know from talking to users and customers of Parse.ly that they had our idea before we implemented it. What matters in software is not an idea, but execution of that idea. Ideas are a dime a dozen."""Andrew Montalentihttp://pixelmonkey.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534765709337552753.post-11779998216772609852010-03-09T05:10:57.000-05:002010-03-09T05:10:57.000-05:00Hahaha, great post. Somehow I missed it the first ...Hahaha, great post. Somehow I missed it the first time. Appreciate pointing it out Matt!<br><br>I'll share this with my patent loathing friends ;)Mark Esselhttp://www.victusspiritus.comnoreply@blogger.com