| Ah, what a business model! Litigate, why innovate? It's been Ma Bell's slogan for a century.
Next up...all other *CABLE* VoIP providers, one by one. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Your time reference of a century is off by quite a bit, but yes, the last decade or two has most definitely shown that our society has turned into a litigious battleground. It's not must Ma Bell btw  |
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jtel
join:2005-06-28
Bristol, RI | reply to pabster
said by pabster:Litigate, why innovate? Why innovate when you can just steal someone else's ideas?
Whats the point of spending dollars on R&D if you can just backwards engineer someone else's product and sell it as yours?
I'd be suing too. |
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| Backward engineering is not illegal and you as a consumer have the biggest benefit of this. If it wasn't for that concept, most improvements would not be made to products by the original creator or the person developing it based on the information they were able to obtain by legally backward engineering a product. |
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"Whats the point of spending dollars on R&D if you can just backwards engineer someone else's product and sell it as yours?"
So how much innovation would we have in PCs if the IBM PC had not been backwards engineered? |
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 sporkmedrop the crantini and move it, sisterPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
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said by jtel:Whats the point of spending dollars on R&D if you can just backwards engineer someone else's product and sell it as yours? I'd be suing too. Too bad the people VZ stole from don't sue them. In the Vonage case some of the patents involved some really serious prior art. |
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'Backward engineering is not illegal'
Not familiar with the DMCA are ye? |
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'Litigate, why innovate?'
Yea...Bell Labs sued the transistor into existance. |
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