He thinks he's so clever, when he tries to claim that an advantage of the patent system is that the knowledge is disclosed - it perhaps applies to the manufacturing methods, like the violins he mentioned, but in the case of the web? How do you define a communications protocol... without telling the participants what it is?
"Uh, yeah, we're gonna send you some packets. We think our protocol is awesome. But it's like, a trade secret, so we can't tell you how to decode them."
He thinks he's so clever, when he tries to claim that an advantage of the patent system is that the knowledge is disclosed - it perhaps applies to the manufacturing methods, like the violins he mentioned, but in the case of the web? How do you define a communications protocol... without telling the participants what it is?
"Uh, yeah, we're gonna send you some packets. We think our protocol is awesome. But it's like, a trade secret, so we can't tell you how to decode them."
Dumbass.
drbarnowl 4 months ago 3