2006-09-13 Returning to Regular Blasting of So-Called Intellectual Property: "There's an awful lot of bath water here, and I'm having trouble seeing the baby." -- "The question is not whether machines think but whether men do." -- Software Patents mean trouble for everybody. Therefore, if you create a startup, don't risk your business by owning software. Sell services instead.
Source : Alex Schroeder: Diary
I think all the SoftwarePatents crap coming our way means exactly one thing:Should I ever start my own company, I would never monetize on the (potentially patent-infringing) product but on services.Make the software open-source, release it, disown it, make it a public asset and thereby protect yourself from PatentTrolls [..]
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