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Originally posted by twistyneck
The lawyers will say that it is cheaper to settle than it is to fight. That is most likely true. That doesn't make it right. This has nothing to do with money, it never has and it never should unless you are a bootlicking lapdog. This is about right vs. wrong and if you give in to Acacia, you are doing a terribly wrong thing. Money can be replaced, honor cannot.
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twistyneck, you hit the nail on the head.
and THIS is the main beef i have with acacia.
i don't really care IF they have a patent or not, i don't like their style, and the way they try to do business is morally repugnant to me.
i don't mind paying a license fee if it is warranted, but;
forget porn for a second:
right now as i type this some little kid in an amazonian jungle has a heart problem and is in the middle of a tricky operation.
and to save this little kid's life a technician working with "doctors without borders" is using a high speed satellite-based devise to leech a video file hosted at johns hopkins medical center that shows the doctor the exact procedures to save this little kid's life.
acacia would like a piece of that, acacia would like to bill the university, that will either have to abandon streaming, or raise the tuition rates to medical students, so they can have access to technology that actually saves lives.
if it were not for the effort and genius of untold thousands of geeks and dreamers (many of whom worked on projects donating their time and smarts for the betterment of mankind)
this technology would not be available to save this little kid's life.
for crissake, even bill gates is giving away his fortune trying to save people from dying of aids in africa---and his company actually produces a product.
there are too many good people that did great things for little or no $ that make this world a better place. shit, the guy that INVENTED the idea of the internet did not try to extort $ for his accomplishment from others.
i prefer businesses that make $ the old-fashioned way.
they earn it.