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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
I looked at the youtube video for the app. Then I went to the Prentke Romich website and looked at their product.
The app is a direct knock-off of the product. Maybe it works slightly differently but the app looks like they took the product and just copied it verbatim. it is really that close. blatant rip-off.
I agree with the rest of it. The Prentke Romich company is enforcing the propriety of the product by not making it portable to alternate hardware platforms like the ipad...but as the owners of the patent, that is their right. I hold no grudge against them for that. |
you are one of those who thinks Microsoft invented spreadsheets, aren't you? Of course interfaces are going to look the same when the an implementation of the same idea is straightforward. It's like dumb Apple execs showing the similarities between their tablet and some other tablet: "See, same large screen, same smartphone hardware behind, same icons launching apps upon touch..."
Patents are truly dumb, you'll come up with some silly and obvious idea and wait for the first sucker to actually implement it, profit!
I'll just quote Benjamin Franklin: "... as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
now, wasn't him one of the Founding Fathers of the USA?