Thread: The end of multitouch for...everyone?
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2009-04-10 , 18:36
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#53
Originally Posted by Lord Raiden View Post
The part that will keep this from happening is all the companies who want to do everything imaginable to kill all competition and become a monopoly. With no tech patents, or no patents at all, period, it'd be every man for himself and you'd either have to be an innovator and a leader in quality and would be forced to truly compete or die.

That's great for us, and it's even better for the companies who can pull it off. For one, it'd weed out the weak and bad companies and boost the strong and good companies.
Microsoft became one of the worst monopolists in the tech world and they didn't use a single patent to do it. In fact, patents (and OSS) are a bona fide threat to MS.

Small tech companies are in a rough business. Innovation (without patents) and quality sound nice theoretically, but don't work in the real world. Try going for funding with an innovative and quality product, but without the ability to keep anyone from copying it. See how far you get... The patent system may be in need of reform, but it's far better than no patents.
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