Z:gnu-www-ja-software-patents--8847ad-This phenomenon of cross-licen/en

This phenomenon of cross-licensing refutes a common myth, the myth of the starving genius. The myth that patents &ldquo;protect&rdquo; the &ldquo;small inventor&rdquo;. Those terms are propaganda terms. You shouldn't use them. The scenario is like this: Suppose there is a brilliant designer of whatever of whatever. Suppose he has spent years starving in the attic designing a new wonderful kind of whatever and now wants to manufacture it and isn't it a shame the big companies are going to go into competition with him, take away all the business and he'll &ldquo;starve&rdquo;.