Why do you think it's "troll post"?

Posted Apr 26, 2011 0:16 UTC (Tue) by klbrun (subscriber, #45083)
In reply to: Why do you think it's "troll post"? by khim
Parent article: A victory for the trolls

Youtube is not permitted in China; neither is Facebook. I don't see software development of these products moving to China. Google has had other issues with China as well.

Russia is similarly authoritarian, Africa lacks in infrastructure, Latin America has various nationalisms that are coming to the fore, Canada lacks the population. People have predicted software would leave the US for India for over 30 years; hasn't happened yet.

There is a reason things are the way they are. Changes would be against inertia.

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Why do you think it's "troll post"?

Posted Apr 26, 2011 1:04 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Why not Europe? Western and Eastern Europe have fairly sane laws and not many software patents (yet).

Why do you think it's "troll post"?

Posted Apr 26, 2011 4:45 UTC (Tue) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link]

You are wrong about the European situation: there are large numbers of software patents in Europe (many tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands), the courts uphold them, and there's also some litigation going on, such as Apple suing Nokia in the UK and in Germany over 9 European software patents.

Also, more fundamentally, patents regulate target markets, not countries of origin. If a company is based in a no-software-patents jurisdiction, it is still affected by them once it tries to serve markets that have software patents.