Comments on: Bright ideas, big wait on tech payback

In retrospect, what could be more lucrative than the transistor, the Net and DOS? Hindsight's a hard lesson for some inventors.
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1947 Transistor not SIlicon

The transistor that John Bardeen,
Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented in 1947 was a germanium transistor, not a silicon one. Gordon Teal, of Texas Instruments, produced the first silicon transistor in 1954.

Nice article, though.

Jim

What if we applied modern day IP strategy...

An interesting article (even if a little
inaccurate with the details), but it doesn't ask
the obvious question: how would the world be
different if the modern-day notions of
"intellectual property" and IP strategy existed?

I think that the obvious answer is that
innovation in highlighted fields would have
stalled and that costs involved in adopting the
technology would become a barrier to bringing
things to market. The advent of modern "IP" is
only now starting to substantially limit
technology development and increasing costs
substantially.

[tomforemski]

IP and Washiungton Legislation

I totally agree, IP battles will limit innovation, and so will legislation pushed by gtroups battling the open web, open standards, and open innovation.

Legislation will also limit innovation--it already does witness the Digital Millennium Act, all in favor of content holdrs and granting almos teternal control, imho.

[John Kuzak]

highlighted fields

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[dennisbaker2003]

Bright Ideas

your selective choise of Ideas to use as reference material leaves a lot to be desired.

1)The Binary Code would have been better.
2)University of South Florida incarceration of a scientist for 15 years for "stealing his own notes", would have been better.


More idea's are lost to corruption than anything else.

Dennis Baker

Corruption