{"id":3590,"date":"2011-07-15T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T22:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2011-07-15T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T22:12:20","slug":"patent-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/patent-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2011\/07\/13\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-independent-developer\/\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2011\/07\/13\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-independent-developer\/\"><p>And, of course, only large companies and publishers can bear these costs. My fear is that It&rsquo;s only a matter of time before developers find the risks and expenses prohibitive and retreat to the safety of a larger organization. We&rsquo;ll be going back to square one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should not be possible to patent basic ideas like <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.toucharcade.com\/showthread.php?t=100387\">cross-promotion links<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.widgetpress.com\/defense\">collecting data via a form<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Hockenberry: And, of course, only large companies and publishers can bear these costs. My fear is that It&rsquo;s only a matter of time before developers find the risks and expenses prohibitive and retreat to the safety of a larger organization. We&rsquo;ll be going back to square one. It should not be possible to patent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}