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Re:Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use by WildUtah on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:34AM (#8756568)
There are a mountain of patents to block innovation in speech recognition. Dragon and many others are ready to knock down any kind of real innovative small company that has success.[0] SRI never had a chance in that market to make it alone and that was understood from the beginning.

Only Apple's and Google's cash and legal muscle makes it possible for new speech recognition tech to be commercialized in the face of patents blocking innovation. Anyone smaller and less intimidating can just be crushed by incumbents.

"researchers and inventors"

That's disingenuous. It's the researchers and inventors that want the patent system out of software, information, and communication.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-amo...

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Re:Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use by throwawaykf05 on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @10:58AM (#8757650)
> It's the researchers and inventors that want the patent system out of software, information, and communication.

That's disingenuous. While that may appear true if you live in the HN / Silicon Valley bubble, it can in no way be generalized. In the rest of the world, i.e. the vast majority of it, most researchers, inventors and engineers (including in software, information and communications) are proud of their patents.

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