Ronald J RileyJan 10th, 2009 - 00:25:26

Has it occurred to anyone that the named vendors have pirated another’s intellectual property?

Virtually all the software industry has an entitlement mentality and they act like they have a god given to take other’s inventions for their own profit. This is an industry which has a long history of patent piracy.

They commit larceny on the grandest of scales and when someone smashes their sticky fingers in other’s patent cookie jars they start screaming about patent trolls.

What is comical is that these thieves are stealing billions of dollars while spending a few hundred million a year rationalizing their conduct and many journalists buy their BS without questioning the patent pirate’s propaganda.

Ronald J. Riley,


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RobJan 26th, 2009 - 03:18:29

I have looked at the patents and googled the inventor. Parts of the patents seem novel in that they are built on what others have previously done. I can only point to my experience with mainframe technologies, for example acf2 and jcl. Program control based on authoritative access to resources was common, as common as logon id/password is today on other systems. The patent assembles many different components commonly used in other facets of computer applications to try and create something unique.

After googling the inventor I discovered he is an expert in the field and has written books and papers on many security subjects. If I were a lawyer I would want to find out all the papers he wrote, all the lectures he gave and who he worked for prior to 1996.

I am very skeptical of people/companies who all of a sudden say after 12 years that someone has infringed on my patent. I think that most new software is novel to some extent.

I find it interesting that Microsoft was named in the lawsuit. I always felt the design of the Microsoft Operating Systems drove the anti-virus industry. Now they have a deep pocket and are a target for lawyers.

The sad thing is that we could have to pay more for software that ideally we should not need.

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