On Sunday 26 February 2006 11:28, Maluvia wrote: [...] >Obviously, a totally new technology - not based on Crystal's - will be > required to get out from under this cloud of restriction. Surely we > can come up with something even better. >To me the whole weakness and vulnerability of Open Software and > Hardware arises from simply trying to RE technology then adapt it, > rather than designing something completely new, then using Open > Licensing schemes to keep the bullies from appropriating it for > anticompetitive purposes and restricting consumer access to useful > technologies. > >- Maluvia Very well said indeed, but... Just bring money, lots of it. And expect some of it to goto the legal profession for their attempts to invalidate patents through prior art searches & presentations at the USTPO. And some more to goto defense of the patents we had damned well generate from such work, I'm recalling all the sword rattling Faunhoffer did over ogg until they realized they did indeed have a dead horse in their barn. We have some truely brilliant people silently working on it I presume, people who also have to pay the rent & eat, so its not fulltime NOW. Find them, and pay them to do the work fulltime, along with any prototype chips they need built for proof of concept, and file the patent even before the proto is built just to get its date carved in stone. The opensource people MUST do this to protect themselves from the present situation vis-a-vis the various *peg's that have turned what was supposed to be an open standard into a royalty nightmare with enough suits from these 'submarine' patents that just getting a docket date requires favorable estimates of the participants lifespans. Only by playing this game on a level field is it winnable. Politics is everywhere it seems, and we MUST learn how to play this game and win. That unforch, requires cash for rent and groceries, lawyers and prototypes. How this is done is up to younger folks than me, but make no mistake, it must be done if we don't want to be the also-ran's forever. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
