This is my favorite sign from FASTForward. I think it says a lot about the company and the idea that creating new things and being a step ahead is more important than protecting old ideas.
I found it on a blog but now I can’t remember which blog it was. (I didn’t have a camera to take a picture myself at the conference). If you took this, let me know and I will link through to you.
Hi Jevon - looks the same as this shot, or someone else has similarly pathetic photographic abilities 
More to the point, what is your understanding of how a company with an invested interest in its search technology, about to be purchased by another company (Microsoft) with a long history of intelprop protection (not perhaps yet past history despite this week’s announcements), views its position in the marketplace, its strategy vis a vis its own hard-won unique search technology?
“Kill the lawyer!” My sentiments as expressed by Rufio in Hook.
I fought with (rather ignored) lawyers at MCI when they wanted us not to tell about the data warehousing work we were doing in the mid-90s (attempting to prevent us from presenting at conferences). They’d been foolish enough to submit patents on some of the stuff: 1. they had no intention of marketing anything 2. they hadn’t even commited funding for us to operate as a consulting entity internally to other MCI data warehousing initiatives.
As was suggested in the lunch panel we hosted on Wednesday, litigation is too slow of a process (and a highly inefficient economic model). The wave of activity outstrips the ability to litigate. Not to mention, it actually stifles the ability to earn, which has been proven by many who embrace such ‘imitation’. The goal is to marginalize anyone who puts up stiff competition and if you can’t — you’re not smart enough to be sustainable anyway.
Does FAST have a collection of all the quotes anywhere? I couldn’t type them all fast enough during the pre-sessions.
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