>фирма А не передаёт патент
> фирме Б, но хочет защитить её своим патентом.Вы фантазируете и _совершенно_ не понимаете, как работает та маркетоидная дрянь наверху. По факту подрабатываете на _их_ рекламу.
Проверочный вопрос: приведите пример "зашиты" патентами фирмой $1 фирмы $2 от $чего-чего?? фирмой $3.
И более того: распространение и утверждение про-патентной пропаганды IBM, Microsoft, Oracele, Google и пр.помельче совершенно противоречит интересам как авторов, так и пользователей Свободного ПО. Подробности на http://techrights.org/category/oin/
http://techrights.org/category/ibm/
http://techrights.org/category/google/
Their biggest sponsors simply do not oppose software patents and instead hoard some themselves
[pic: Linux Foundation sponsors]
Summary: The arms race of patents, or the notion that bad patents can be countered using more bad patents, has become an infectious mentality that acts as a barrier to real progress and only makes the patent thickets a lot ‘thicker’ (impenetrable to small companies/market entrants) --http://techrights.org/2017/04/06/swpats-issue-ignored/
Attacks on GNU/Linux and Free/libre software, but OIN cannot do anything about it
[pic: Submarine (patents)]
Summary: Microsoft’s patent litigation strategy has become clearer, and patents-centric efforts such as OIN offer no defence against such a strategy, which attempts to pressure everyone to flock to Microsoft for ‘protection’ (from Microsoft itself) --http://techrights.org/2017/03/19/azure-protection-from-micro.../
Oracle (from OIN) suing Google (from OIN) over Android (Linux-based) and seeking nearly $10,000,000,000 in ‘damages’ serves to show that OIN is not a workaround/solution to the key problem, which is software patents --http://techrights.org/2016/03/30/oin-flawed/
