Protecting Design

Re: [spiers] Protecting Design


On Tue, 16 May 2006 12:41:28 -0700, "grp grp" wrote :

> Your email about this subject on Protecting Design rights is great and
> following are my comments:

> I think inventors do invent for return for their efforts and not "Cuz they
> like it", especially in today's times. During late 70's when inventor were
> creating, the mind set of inventor was "Cuz they like it", later it was
> realized that it was about someone else's ideas to make money, inventors
> start looking at IP rights, modeling after the leader of the pack Chairman
> Gates.
> grp

Hang on... the vast majority of those who invent for money, at least those who
go through
the IP route, something like 98%, yield nothing at all, in fact waste every
penny they invest.
And there are far more people today writing software for free than there ever
were back in
the 'good ol days' of Bay Area circa 1975. I have no PC equipment, but Apple
sure has on
their website a place where you can look up and download free applications, and
the list
grows daily. I am sure there are PC versions of this. Apparently the
motivation is to see how
many downloads your program generates. That ain't money. Except for getting
bigger, I
don't think anything has changed.

John

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