Re: [hylafax-users] Problem on the Patent Front

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Underwood wrote:

> Lee Howard wrote:
>
> > Whether or not the patents are anything less silly than patenting 
> > frozen juice bars is questionable, yet nonetheless the patents do 
> > exist, and that gives the holder every right to sue whomever they may 
> > see infringing upon their Congress-approved monopoly on the so-called 
> > invention.
>
>
> I see where you are coming from (i.e. the doctor specialising in 
> paranoia :-) ), however that case involved copyright infringement. 
> Patents have a more solid basis than copyright for what is and is not 
> allowed. However, the US courts seems to be making law up as they go 
> along these days, so who knows. The snag is with a really paranoid 
> attitude you never do anything wrong by simply never doing anything at 
> all. :-\


I'm glad that you see, now, what I was trying to say before (even 
though, yes, it may not have been well thought-out).  :-)

I don't expect that it's anything new to recent generations, although 
it's certainly obvious today, but it seems that much of the world 
revolves around greed.  So in that endeavor people try to pack their 
wagons full of stuff - even of stuff that they don't value at the time 
but they hope may be of value sometime to someone.  And if others let 
them, they start packing that wagon full of stuff that really isn't even 
theirs.  They land in a "new world", stake the flag into the ground, and 
thus declare that entire continent belongs to their greedy king.  Well, 
that's all good for them, I guess.  However, that kind of behavior only 
works when other people who may want the same property acknowledge the 
others' claims.

So I think that the best thing that we can do is to just move on, 
getting our work done without stepping on others' toes, and do our best 
to help those that become the targets of greedy neighbors.  If you have 
something that others see of value then sometime, somewhere, somehow 
someone else will try to take it from you... guaranteed.  Let's not let 
that scare us, though.

Lee.


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