Re: open source. was Closed system (was: PC connection via twinax ?)

Leif Svalgaard wrote:

>>The last I heard, IBM files more patents each year then just about any
>>other company on earth.
>>
>>The purpose of a patent is to announce your idea -and- protect it from
>>anyone else using it.
>>
>
>most patents are filed to prevent anybody from using the idea, even
>
Most? What is the percentage? Where do you get this statistic? What
evidence do you have that this happens with any regularity, let alone
that "most" of patent filings are in this category?

>
>if you yourself have no intentions of using it. Just to kill innovation that
>might be a future threat to you.
>
Speak for yourself! To me, those sound like groundless statements. If I were 
filing a patent, it would be to protect the research that I put into something. 
Giving me the option of using it myself or licensing it out to someone else.

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