Want to code for the devil?

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by almightygod • 14 years ago

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almightygod• 14 years ago

One of your responsibilities:

Identification of product and services potentially infringed by IV’s patents

cjdavis• 14 years ago

It's even worse than that. You would specifically be one of the minions analyzing code that you can claim infringes IV patents.

Doing the devil's work indeed.

swordswinger122• 14 years ago

Taking advantage of a broken system to make a profit isn't demonic, it's capitalism. People and companies respond to incentives, so if we want these types of companies to cease to exist we must destroy the incentives that caused them to exist in the first place.

bkudria• 14 years ago

That would be true only if no one was harmed by your profiteering.

pavel_lishin2• 14 years ago

> Taking advantage of a broken system to make a profit isn't demonic, it's capitalism.

It sure sounds like you're trying to claim that legal === moral.

swordswinger122• 14 years ago

Of course not, but if we accept as axiomatic that corrupt people will exploit anything they can, then whose fault is it when the exploitation occurs?

Want to code for the devil?

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