Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses [LWN.net]

Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses

Posted Sep 30, 2010 12:20 UTC (Thu) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435)
In reply to: Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Red Hat Responds to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Request for Guidance on Bilski

> I said Red Hat didn't create or acquire the core of its offering: Linux.

What are you talking about? They're creating it right now! Have you seen the
various LWN analyses of kernel changes? Red Hat is consistently the top company
making changes to the kernel... They (along with various others) ARE the creators
of Linux!!

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Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses

Posted Sep 30, 2010 12:24 UTC (Thu) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link] (1 responses)

My blog posting doesn't deny their contributions at this stage and more recently. But if politicians talk about how to incentivize and protect innovation, the assumption is that the original innovators as well as those (often the same ones) taking the initial risk of market adoption have to be incentivized with strong intellectual property rights.

Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses

Posted Oct 1, 2010 7:20 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> But if politicians talk about how to incentivize and protect innovation, the assumption is that the original innovators as well as those (often the same ones) taking the initial risk of market adoption have to be incentivized with strong intellectual property rights.

You are definitely right about that. It is an assumption.