Comment Dude - (Score 1) 385
You're getting a Dell
Comment And this is bad how? (Score 1) 2
"IP will be ignored and it will be impossible or impractical to enforce. Everything will change when you can make anything." said John Hornick, an IP attorney with Finnegan, Henderson, Farbow, Garrett & Dunner LLP in New York."
OK, call me stupid, but I still don't understand IP law in any way. Sure, you create something, let's call it the "Wamblinator" ('Guaranteed to stop your shoes from wambling, or your money back!'), I should not be able to manufacture a thing called a "Wamblinator" that stops...shoes...wambling. (this example is getting silly), but I should be able to compete against you and make an anti-wambling device that acts similarly.
I also understand copyright, as it pertains to I can't steal your movie/book/album and show it for profit (or at all, really. silly, but understandable)
But the ability for a company to say "I perform this act...you cannot, or else SURPRISE! LAWYERS!" do NOT get it.
Anyone care to explain?
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