http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/01/11/transmeta-sues-intel-intel-sues-transmeta/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/01/11/transmeta-sues-intel-intel-sues-transmeta/comment-page-1/#comment-3865 Andy Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:26:42 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/01/11/transmeta-sues-intel-intel-sues-transmeta/#comment-3865 You are completely missing the point here. Transmeta is an IP-only company, and they do a damn good job of reducing power and lowering production costs for the chip-builders that have the good sense to hire them. You are suggesting that the law and patent claims make goods more expensive. This is incredibly short sighted. Innovation comes from people working hard to make products that are distinctly theirs, for a set time of profitability until their patents run out. Having an "anti-litigation, anti-lawyer, anti-patent" group would hurt the consumer and the industry immensely. Progress, without patents and the laws you detest, stops on the corporate level. Open-source is great, but that is not capitalism, that is not the economic force that drives technological breakthroughs. You need massive amounts of capital to do intensive chip research on the scale of Transmeta and Intel, and without the influx of capital that comes from capitalizing on one's ideas, the industry would die. If you actually care about the industry that provides your job, you should stop trying to make patents sound obsolete, and stop scapegoating the legal system that keeps them intact. Thank you. You are completely missing the point here. Transmeta is an IP-only company, and they do a damn good job of reducing power and lowering production costs for the chip-builders that have the good sense to hire them. You are suggesting that the law and patent claims make goods more expensive. This is incredibly short sighted. Innovation comes from people working hard to make products that are distinctly theirs, for a set time of profitability until their patents run out. Having an “anti-litigation, anti-lawyer, anti-patent” group would hurt the consumer and the industry immensely. Progress, without patents and the laws you detest, stops on the corporate level. Open-source is great, but that is not capitalism, that is not the economic force that drives technological breakthroughs. You need massive amounts of capital to do intensive chip research on the scale of Transmeta and Intel, and without the influx of capital that comes from capitalizing on one’s ideas, the industry would die. If you actually care about the industry that provides your job, you should stop trying to make patents sound obsolete, and stop scapegoating the legal system that keeps them intact.
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