Tim Olson
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:45 am Post subject: FlightPrep Lawsuit |
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Interesting that this is starting to go mainstream:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/when-bad-patents-hurt-good-people-patent-threat
The EFF now has it on their radar as well....and they have a "Patent
Busting Project" to help with things like this.
Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD
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On 1/1/2011 10:02 PM, Pascal wrote:
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Well, the big guys aren't biting and if no one buys from any Flightprep
run businesses, hence my suggesting telling DUATS you wont support them,
Flightprep will have nothing.
I agree it may go down to the patent in court but if folks stick to
their words it doesn't matter how Flightprep plans to make money if no
one buys the software indirectly. Seattle avionics has an alternative
that is not impacted by the patent, so already there are options that
will work.
If no one buys Flightprep, they will go down as spending a whole lot of
money on a patent/lawyers and have nothing to support them in business.
Personally, they should have done this the right way. Use the money to
develop better software and Flightprep would have done just fine.
Instead they wimped out and decided to remove competition to force
people to settle for what they have.
The consumer decides who gets their business, many don't care about
Flightprep, but most do, if DUATS gave up their licensing/royalties to
flightprep due to losing their clients, it WOULD make a difference. Same
goes for ASA, there are numerous other options to ASA training videos.
The only point I know I am going to be missing is that of pointing my
computer to any Flightprep run software based company.
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