Former Intel CEO Andy Grove Wants Struggling Industries To Stop Slacking

lousyd writes "Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel and current instructor at Stanford Business School, has a message for industry. He believes that health care and energy, especially, could learn a lesson from computing's innovative and relatively government-free history. He asks students to imagine if mainframe vendors had asked government to prop them up in the same way that General Motors recently was. On the issue of computer patents, he insists that firms must use their patents or lose them: 'You can't just sit on your a** and give everyone the finger.'"

Re:use em or lose'm for patents doesn't fix much

[hedwards]

Hmm, so you're posting via prayer?

Re:Stop letting Stanford Business School people ..

[Wonko the Sane]

I'm going to have to take a shower after writing this, but I agree 100% with John C Dvorak on this subject [pcmag.com].

Re:use em or lose'm for patents doesn't fix much

[TheRaven64]

Andy Grove said, "You can't just sit on your a** and give everyone the finger." And later he added, "Hey you kids, get off my damn lawn!" ;-)

I think Andy Grove deserves more respect than you are giving him. Remember, this is a man who can vocalise two asterisks in a row.

Re:So, what's the answer supposed to be?

[Anarchduke]

Which is why when the economy tanked during the Great Depression, social security was created, since nobody wanted millions of elderly starving to death.

Re:So, what's the answer supposed to be?

[Anarchduke]

Don't you know that the moon landings were faked? Even Neil Armstrong is convinced that his historic moonwalk was faked [theonion.com].