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• The reason why Windows 7 is selling like hotcakes is that people can't dump Vista fast enough. I think some sort of credit should be given to Vista owners but MS knows that people will upgrade regardless. Its the most upside down marketing ever. "Buy our new software because our old software sucked so bad. This new stuff doesn't suck nearly as bad, so you must buy it to erase the evidence of MS incompetence and actually have a computer that works. Windows 7...I invented it out of pure frustration with Vista." In reply to: "Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes"

  November 19, 2009

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• Well put
  The large tech companies are dominating the debate because..guess what...they have the money to. And they want these patent laws changed...because they know they are liable. In this case, their actions are speaking louder than their words.

  September 24, 2007

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• Software patents very difficult obtain
  As the CEO of a small company that has successfully patented several software technologies, I can tell you that the patent office does not grant these easily. It took over 5 years to get one of our patents that was applied for in 1998. The process is intensive and very expensive. The examiners have tremendous research resources available to them and use them exhaustively looking for prior art. Sometimes they get it wrong, but their track record speaks for itself where nearly 95% of all the patents stand up in court.
  
  I think that people who are opposed to patents should imagine themselves in the shoes of inventors from small companies who are getting infringed upon by the big guys, who on one hand are inforcing their own patents with an iron hand, and the next minute accusing the small companies being "trolls". The patent is the last line of defense for the small inventor.

  October 21, 2005

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• Software patents very difficult obtain
  As the CEO of a small company that has successfully patented several software technologies, I can tell you that the patent office does not grant these easily. It took over 5 years to get one of our patents that was applied for in 1998. The process is intensive and very expensive. The examiners have tremendous research resources available to them and use them exhaustively looking for prior art. Sometimes they get it wrong, but their track record speaks for itself where nearly 95% of all the patents stand up in court.
  
  I think that people who are opposed to patents should imagine themselves in the shoes of inventors from small companies who are getting infringed upon by the big guys, who on one hand are inforcing their own patents with an iron hand, and the next minute accusing the small companies being "trolls". The patent is the last line of defense for the small inventor.

  October 21, 2005

  3 replies