100% agree.. Home ownership sort of sucks in some ways..
I like to go home and not worry about the plumbing, or grass, or if the rain was going to impact the solar panels.
Now when I owned my first place, I spent my weekends putting in new floors. I painted every room, and helped redo the plumbing. Months of lost weekends, and about 15k...
So when we sold I was rather happy. We got 30k over what we paid. Then the agent after 2 days work took his 17k slice off the price. And so now that 30k was down to 13. So weeks and months of work and net profit - 2k.
People who say things like this should be required to read 1984 before they're allowed to post again.
People who say "I have nothing to hide" should be required to post a video of themselves going to the bathroom, along with their bank statement, and facebook/email password.
As a dev, the last thing I want to do is solve a solved problem. Building a docker image to allow me to red-green deploy sounds about as exciting as writing an XML parser.
As someone who pays for dev time. I can spend > 100k for an ops expert, or pay a small fraction of that to have something like Heroku handle it for me. They do updates, I don't care. 200$ a month and I'm cooking with gas.
What I remember of RIM, is they took some guys code. He innovated, and they took it. He told them, and just asked for a mention in the authors page. A quick thanks mate. I'd suspect it would help him land future jobs, and be fun to talk about.
They rejected it. He died and his estate sold the rights. Then BB got sued. They should have been sued, and deserved what they got. Don't steal from devs
If they "took his code", that's a copyright issue, and patents aren't necessary to prevent it. Regardless, "e-mail, but on mobile internet" is not something that should be patentable, and even if this one case were justified, the overall effect of software patents is negative, and consists mostly of incidents such as Microsoft only supporting filesystems they have patents on, and extorting with them any device manufacturer that wants to interoperate with Windows [1], or patent trolls threatening small businesses for connecting their printer to the internet.
It does fosters innovation, but it doesn't offset the cost it causes to innovation. It is very likely the common defense of patents suffers from the broken window fallacy.
The main purpose it seems to serve nowadays is to make it easier for certain classes of corporations to gain funding. And that is really it.
I like to go home and not worry about the plumbing, or grass, or if the rain was going to impact the solar panels.
Now when I owned my first place, I spent my weekends putting in new floors. I painted every room, and helped redo the plumbing. Months of lost weekends, and about 15k...
So when we sold I was rather happy. We got 30k over what we paid. Then the agent after 2 days work took his 17k slice off the price. And so now that 30k was down to 13. So weeks and months of work and net profit - 2k.