Comments on: Doom 3: Patents and the GPL http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/13654 Embrace your Inner Penguin Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:06:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Thunor http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/13654/comment-page-1#comment-329153 Thunor Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:54:27 +0000 http://www.linuxgames.com/?p=13654#comment-329153 How do you even begin to comment on this ridiculous nonsense. So Creative own an algorithm and they used this to "persuade" id into supporting EAX! I'm going to make a prediction about what these patents are going to achieve: Existing powerful companies and their patent grabbing are going to make it impossible for new companies to develop competing products. Dodgy businessmen -- you know the ones, they handily make billions on economic downturns and end up buying their competitors for a pound -- will own everything, they'll make garbage and nobody will be able to do anything about it. How do you even begin to comment on this ridiculous nonsense. So Creative own an algorithm and they used this to “persuade” id into supporting EAX!

I’m going to make a prediction about what these patents are going to achieve: Existing powerful companies and their patent grabbing are going to make it impossible for new companies to develop competing products. Dodgy businessmen — you know the ones, they handily make billions on economic downturns and end up buying their competitors for a pound — will own everything, they’ll make garbage and nobody will be able to do anything about it.

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