Tempest in a Teapot of idiots. You can legally or illegally buy or steal a gun 100 times faster than doing it on a "3D Printer."

No criminal would waste his time. Only a person who is super interested in being a designer would take the time and expense to do this an exercise.

Reliable guns need metals for critical parts to function reliably for any length of time and they need to be done to tolerances and surface finishes that RP printers can NOT accomplish.

If RIGHT, can you do anything about it with 7 billion people in the world, most of which don't care!

People don't get sucked into a "gadget" when they have real needs. Users want a product with a real answer they can RELY on.

You run an ex-pat travel agency, right?

3D guns are ludicrous to anyone who has ever used 3D printers and knows anything about the tolerances, surface finish and strengths needed for a gun.

Any criminal can by a top quality gun for far less than the software and printer needed to make a 3D printed toy plastic so-called gun.

Politicians have no clue as to the real world.

When the inside of computer code, not just built in access to a program, becomes known to an inside coder who decides to go rogue, you get...the $45 million heist from ATMs that just occurred. Is the 'Bloomberg Break In' any different?

Dozens of articles on Slashdot over the last 12 months concern various security flaws and the dozens of ways they are subverted.

There is a real question as to whether keepers of large databases and their executions can be kept safe doing it the way it has been done to date.

What is next?

As Bill Gates was just quoted, 90% of MS software in use in the Chinese government offices and in large companies (mostly government owned) is pirated.

If Adobe is doing this to stop piracy in foreign countries that is their choice. That doesn't mean Adobe will be my choice.

I think I will do my light duty image editing in other applications from now on. No way am I going to store images of patent pending proprietary products on Adobe's servers or my own equipment that Adobe can deny me access to whenever I don't come up with their monthly fee, for whatever reason (ever heard of credit card theft and a card is cancelled: been there already).

Well, if Adobe's $23 Billion market cap goes down when they go all subscription, maybe Apple will just buy it with pocket change.

I can see the viability of Adobe's functionality coming out of the Apple App Store with the updates and reliability I expect from Apple.

But the Board of Directors seems dominated by a few insiders like Gate & Ballmer, while the King is pretending the crown still fits.

Private equity people who have industry insider knowledge about digital video or a company that wants to partner for being able to co-brand or use the technology may be a better partner where they can see a benefit to their current work, clients or product output.

These people may value the product and investment higher than a VC...

I have gone through this before. I have had a pitch where 100+ VCs would not return with an email or other response.

Get the right insider who used to be with "the competition" or "the industry leader" or "just sold his company" in this field and you can see a deal in a few weeks. Why? Because they already know the market, difficulties and reason why your answer is what is needed for people's needs. These types of people have their own sources and often sell themselves on the deal. That is what you want to aim for.

Plus you are likely to see a higher valuation on your work. Instead of you and your partner getting 20% of the company, maybe you both split 40% or more.

As others have said, 'It is all about how the business makes cash.'

Who buys it, why and for how much money?

Is it an online processing via a web portal & FTP or does the customer license for use on a PC/Mac/Linux?

Bo.

That way your payments you dole out will really drop fast.

Executives in any industry tend to follow the lemming herd. Customers follow what works best.

Seriously, who these PATENT EXAMINERS think they are ? God incarnate ?

ANSWER: Yes!

I had a valuable patent rejected because the patent examiner said a straight spline item in my product was a helical spiral and therefore was prior art like all other screw threads.

I didn't ask my patent attorney to yell at them, but nothing he could do including a personal call resulted in the examiner backing off their erroneous position. I just had to give up.

Sounds like one more boost that will give impetus for more people to become involved in open source projects.