Sun endorses software patents, then loses 50% of profits to one
An anonymous reader sez, "Ian Clarke points out a delicious piece of Schadenfreude - Just days after Sun's President Jonathan Schwartz said 'I continue to believe in the protection of ideas conveyed by patents [...] As does every company that expects to build a durable asset on behalf of its investors ...', Kodak wins their software patent case against Sun which could cost Sun up to half their operating profit between 1998 and 2001!"Hey Jonathan, why did Sun need to steal Kodak's precious intellectual property - and if you didn't, perhaps, having experienced the wrong end of US patent law, you can reconsider your position on software patents?Link
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Cory Doctorow
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