How Yahoo Weaponized My Work - Software Patents

[Derek Trotter]

I agree with what you said about yahoo.  I don't like the idea of people 
being able to patent a concept.  Let people have rights to software they 
write, but not the idea itself.  If the software patent idea had come 
out a few years earlier, someone could have gotten a patent for encoding 
digital audio in a compressed form.  This would have been a headache for 
the people who developed mp3 and the other formats that have come after it.

On 3/15/2012 9:17, Michael Butash wrote:
> I was chatting with folks at PayPal when they told me their CEO Scott 
> Thompson was poached by yahoo to be the next inline to try and 
> resurrect them to relevancy.  I found that odd until I heard he got 
> 27mil to do it.  I'd probably even sell my soul to microsoft for that.
>
> I'd wondered just what he would try, as it seems pretty dismal for 
> yahoo these days (but hey, even lycos is still around!).  Pretty sad 
> that patent trolling is the best he could come up with, indicating 
> it'll be yet another revolving door CEO position there if he fails, or 
> worse, he's successful as little more than a parasite on the industry 
> already plagued with them.  That's a hell of a legacy from "made 
> paypal big and strong".
>
> Way to innovate there buddy.  Though I dislike Facebook, I almost hope 
> they win just to force yahoo die off once and for all.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 03/15/2012 07:51 AM, keith smith wrote:
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