Had another licensee on ICQ yesterday who was asking if I could lighten up in my condemnation of them. My answer was no both times.
Neither could answer a simple question;
"If you had thought by signing you would go out of business would you have signed or fought?"
I do feel sorry that they were placed in the position where they had to make the choice, but until licensees and more importantly potential licensees know that signing up is a bad move we will be plagued by more "Patent License Firms"
Licensees are the way Acacia fund themselves to screw more of us. Cut off the supply of funds and you starve the foe, feed him and you make him stronger.
Neither of them would contribute to the defense fund saying it was against the terms of the license.
So we are to keep sending business to licensees while they pay a little license fee and others do the fighting (paying) for them.
No I will not let up on licensees.
Neither could answer a simple question;
"If you had thought by signing you would go out of business would you have signed or fought?"
I do feel sorry that they were placed in the position where they had to make the choice, but until licensees and more importantly potential licensees know that signing up is a bad move we will be plagued by more "Patent License Firms"
Licensees are the way Acacia fund themselves to screw more of us. Cut off the supply of funds and you starve the foe, feed him and you make him stronger.
Neither of them would contribute to the defense fund saying it was against the terms of the license.
So we are to keep sending business to licensees while they pay a little license fee and others do the fighting (paying) for them.
No I will not let up on licensees.
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