Samsung-what a crappy company

[hunter]

31. The patent system is very seriously broken and not serving the "greater good."

I do my very best to avoid proprietary software produced by giant corporations. I do my very best to avoid our "consumer" society.

Heck, I do my best to avoid devices with computers in them until someone figures out how to jailbreak them. By then these products are usually in the thrift stores and dumpsters, which is where I get most of my gadgets. I don't want any computers at all in things like washing machines or refrigerators or motorcycles.

Innovators and artists ought to be paid for their work, and paid well if they contribute greatly to the common good, but that's rarely what patents are about in our global society. For every innovator like Tim Berner-Lee there are dozens of corporate sharks controlling the innovations of unsung people to be used as lawyerly weapons against their corporate competitors.

While Apple and Samsung are slugging it out, maybe someone I could respect will come along and make them irrelevant. Until then I'll just ignore whatever it is they are selling.