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Which Company (or type of company) has harmed Software Development the most?   [Edit]

Survey period: 26 May 2008 to 2 Jun 2008

To balance our previous survey we'll now ask which company has done the most harm to Software Development as a profession? (use whatever definition of "most harm" suits you)

OptionVotes% 
Microsoft9213.14
Sun142.00
Google284.00
RedHat71.00
Apple253.57
Outsourcing companies in general13619.43
Law firms in general699.86
The US Patent Office20028.57
Venture capitalists in general192.71
Any company or organisation fighting anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices9213.14

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The Cake of Deceit29-May-08 0:40
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar29-May-08 19:10
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The Cake of Deceit1-Jun-08 3:38
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Viral Upadhyay29-May-08 20:37
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Chris Meech27-May-08 10:39
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GeneralVB Pin
NormDroid26-May-08 20:56
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osy26-May-08 22:28
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MHASSANF26-May-08 22:57
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Paul Watson26-May-08 23:26
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Paul Watson26-May-08 23:47
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Howard Richards28-May-08 22:37
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NormDroid28-May-08 22:42
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Steve Echols29-May-08 19:29
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Howard Richards28-May-08 22:36
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Corporal Agarn30-May-08 4:17
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KarstenK26-May-08 20:27
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Paul Watson26-May-08 23:30
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jhwurmbach27-May-08 3:10
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Paul Watson27-May-08 4:08
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jhwurmbach27-May-08 4:16
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Paul Watson27-May-08 4:20
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jhwurmbach27-May-08 4:26
jhwurmbach27-May-08 4:26 
Paul Watson wrote:
>Remenber, up until now there are no Softwarepatents in the EU, and we're doing fine.

But there are now


Sorry, they are not. The EU-patent office is accepting applications, though, thus breaking the law.

Paul Watson wrote:
Patents are simply not the proper protection for software - thats copyright.

[...]Enforcing it would be impossible


And so are patents.

Worse - patents hamper research and development of new products, and that means progress.
You cann not be sure you are not infringing a patent. Too many submarine-patents in the major portfolios.
The major players cross-license and stop new players entering the market.

Totally contrary to any ideas of liberalism and such.

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
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