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well, this sun/xlink thing is certainly willie inducing. it may be a ways off, but one of the things i'm really excited about is eventually doing an xLink implementation in vizbang. i hope this will be ironed out by the time i get to that point. an idea that i had for white hat patents, and perhaps something sun might consider: donate the patent to a standards organization. that way they still get a win from it, if only a PR boost. as for the patent issue itself - i've faced it with my work a couple of times now. my conclusion so far has been that a brilliantly amazing, paradigm destroying, world upending good old fashioned great idea and US$3.00 will get you - exactly - a double latte and not a thing beyond that. execution really is everything. maybe this is more apparent to people in small underfunded companies, as opposed to big companies with already established herds of lawyers. and i'm not closing myself off to the idea permanently, and it's certainly been proposed, but i have made the decision to try to steer clear of that path to the best of my ability. and i think there are solid business reasons that should appeal to companies of any size to do the same. da
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