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Give the ill-gotten patent profits back

Give the ill-gotten patent profits back

Posted Jun 2, 2006 20:34 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: Give the ill-gotten patent profits back by jstAusr
Parent article: The end of the JPEG patent - sort of

Indeed, that's the whole point, since ill-gotten profits are the whole reason this unhappy and sordid business came to be in the first place. If somehow we can make the chances of making money out of such a scheme low enough, it will stop happening. The trick is to figure out how to do this. :-(


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