[Asterisk-biz] Fax Services

[Paul]

Awarding and enforcing unmerited patents impacts the solution provider 
and the consumer. It took me about 2 hours back in 2000 to get hylafax 
setup with a zoom external modem and delivering the faxes as pdf email 
attachments. How long does it take to research the patent issue and 
decide if it's safe to implement my solution? If j2 never wins in court, 
it is still difficult to prove it was frivilous lawsuit and collect 
damages. Even so, those damages are for the plaintiffs they harrassed. 
What is needed is a class action suit against a company like this. Their 
bullying has a negative impact on many others besides the ones they 
choose to "make an example of". It impacts free enterprise and consumer 
choice. How much are consumers spending on fax machines and telco hunt 
groups because many little Acme Widget companies are delaying product 
launches?

Tom Hayden wrote:

>Sounds like we're getting into the software patent issue now. What a
>complex and ugly mess.  I'm actually doing some academic research (at
>Michigan State Univ) right now, trying to figure out some kind of
>empirical impact that these patent have on Open-Source and peer
>production of software, specifically VoIP and PBXs.  Pretty
>interesting stuff, and here's an actual example of the impact.
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>Tom Hayden
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>On 9/21/05, Paul <digium-list at 9ux.com> wrote:
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>>Mojo Jojo wrote:
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>>>I don't get it.. Are they saying they own all electronic/non
>>>traditional faxing?
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>>So all those helicopters are not really looking for marijuana?
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