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Winfield Hill
- Jan 1, 1970
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Bill Gates wrote in his Challenges and Strategy memo of May 16 1991, If
people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's
ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at
a complete standstill today. The solution ... is patenting as much as
we can ... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced
to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose."
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/guardian-article.html or original at
http://www.bralyn.net/etext/literature/bill.gates/challenges-strategy.txt
Microsoft now has over 4,000 patents and tens of thousands more pending.
Thanks,
- Win
whill_at_picovolt-dot-com
people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's
ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at
a complete standstill today. The solution ... is patenting as much as
we can ... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced
to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose."
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/guardian-article.html or original at
http://www.bralyn.net/etext/literature/bill.gates/challenges-strategy.txt
Microsoft now has over 4,000 patents and tens of thousands more pending.
Thanks,
- Win
whill_at_picovolt-dot-com