| Teeqoz said: Who the hell said it was the only goal? It is an option. If you think your business will do better under a bigger company (and if the sum is big enough...) you'd sell, but if you wanted to remain in control of your business, so as to grow and become a major player yourself, you don't sell.
Haha, I'm to say. Patent free future won't happen, at least not as long as I live, and thank god for that. BTW, at your "How else could Apple succeed as a business? They STEAL!", well no, not really. They innovate. If everyone could use Apple's ideas, they wouldn't have succeeded as a business. You know what other companies wouldn't have succeeded without patents? Intel, AMD, Micron Technology, Sony, Samsung, Microsoft, Tesla etc. The list goes on and on. Patents are crucial for small companies to succeed, because if big companies could use their ideas however they pleased, they would never get big. |
You may get one less option and I'm not arguing that but at least you can put out a competitive product without the resctriction of patents. I'm mainly arguing that if companies were not bounded by patents they can be more competitive and that much is obvious. Besides there are reasons other than acquiring a business for it's patents such as having good employees ...
Was Apple the first one with a digital portable media player ? No ...
Was Apple the first one with a smartphone ? No obviously ...
Was Apple the first with the tablet ? Nope, well you get the idea ...
Innovation ALONE is hardly the key to success when there's lots of examples out there where the original inventors not capitalizing on the market ...
Ironically enough patents will probably push AMD in a less competitive position plus they only got lucky due to IBM requiring a second manufacturer ...
Patents can also stifle small companies when they are en mass thrust to be drove out of the market by larger entities ...
Patents aren't the ONLY thing for a small business to become a big shot company and it's not like they can't get a competitive advantage too when all that R&D is free. It might even make it harder for bigger companies to hold a monopoly all things accounted for ...
