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Microsoft's Latest Export To Korea: Patents That Hold Back Innovation
from the things-get-worse-before-they-get-better dept
No one can accurately say that there hasn't been a ton of innovation coming out of South Korea in the past few years, but now it seems that Microsoft is crashing the party. Against Monopoly is noting that Koreans are getting worried about the large number of software patents Microsoft has been filing in the country, noting that it seems very clear that Microsoft's plans are about using these patents to restrict competition. They note that, historically, Korean companies haven't focused on getting software patents, and they're now worried about how this will slow down innovation throughout the country. It will be interesting to see if this causes a change in policy, but it certainly highlights the fallacy that more patents shows how innovation is increasing in a country. This is yet another place where more patents are causing plenty of people to be quite worried about how it can hold back innovation.
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holding back innovation
GG Microsoft.
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obscure? Rocky? What planet are you from? I'm not inclined to toss around the word "clueless" too often, but it seems like that's my reaction almost every time I read one of your posts.
Are you sure you aren't Dorpus in disguise?
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you don't know what you're lookin' at....
and i don't know who you have read them to you.. but i suspect your sense of humour is about as tiny as your penis and the two together leave you feeling extraordinarily inadequate. so ...fuck you towel head...
there, i feel much better.
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Re: holding back innovation
By creating Windows and various software, it is eliminating competition, therefore lowering prices.
Wouldn't eliminating competition cause prices to go up? If there is no one to compete with me I can charge quite a bit for my product. Why else would MS OSs and Office Packages cost so much? In a market in which there are multiple competitors price it on of the biggest points of contention. If you have lots of competitors then you literally can't afford to charge too much for your product.
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"By creating Windows and various software, it is eliminating competition, therefore lowering prices."
I direct your attention to: http://www.tunexp.com/news/windows-story-135.html
That is not a recent article... Where is my $40.00 copy of XP and Office combined?
No, you can well expect that those prices will never be offered in the USA and that Microsoft will continue to charge what it does now, or more, for its products.
I hope you will pay CLOSE attention to the fact that the reason behind Microsoft offering this package in Thailand was do competition and NOT do to the lack of competition.
Until the competition has Microsoft shaking in their boots prices will either stabilize or climb.
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