The international politics of the day, the emerging military importance of radio, the overturning of all (but one) of Marconi's patents regarding radio in the US, and the fact that Marconi was the one who actually managed to build commercial devices, all make this a much more interesting and complex story than that comic makes it out to be.
If you want to feel sorry for someone it should be Maxwell who actually discovered, and proved the existence of electromagnetic waves 40 years before these guys started fighting over who owns the patents!
The international politics of the day, the emerging military importance of radio, the overturning of all (but one) of Marconi's patents regarding radio in the US, and the fact that Marconi was the one who actually managed to build commercial devices, all make this a much more interesting and complex story than that comic makes it out to be.
Somehow, I don't think that was the comic's intention...
If you want to feel sorry for someone it should be Maxwell who actually discovered, and proved the existence of electromagnetic waves 40 years before these guys started fighting over who owns the patents!
Edison and Marconi were the arguers. Tesla gave up and dug ditches. And I know that Maxwell and others got shafted, too. Edison didn't invent the electric lamp.
Awesome fact (though Timo probably knows this one): Tesla believed electrons and atomic theory were "silly." All of his inventions came to be through his firm belief that electricity was a classical fluid.
Is not a gamer entitled to the sweat of his own brow?
No, says the modder, it belongs to the poor.
No, says the man at Activision, it belongs to Kotick.
No, says the man at the Pirate Bay, it belongs to everyone.
I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...
Steam.
A service where the artist would not fear the pirate, where the player would not be bound by petty internet connections (usually), where the lawful would not be constrained because of the thief..
And with the sweat of your brow, Steam can become your home for PC gaming as well.
The whole ordeal is a right cock-up. But you have to admire him for standing stiff and firm against all opposition, refusing to bend, and showing he has serious balls.
If you want to feel sorry for someone it should be Maxwell who actually discovered, and proved the existence of electromagnetic waves 40 years before these guys started fighting over who owns the patents!
Sure, but you can't patent a discovery. You have to do something with it. You could patent a guillotine, but not gravity itself.
The whole ordeal is a right cock-up. But you have to admire him for standing stiff and firm against all opposition, refusing to bend, and showing he has serious balls.
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Looks like the next generation has their "Donnas".
I think I came, I'm totally getting this.
If you want to feel sorry for someone it should be Maxwell who actually discovered, and proved the existence of electromagnetic waves 40 years before these guys started fighting over who owns the patents!
Awesome fact (though Timo probably knows this one): Tesla believed electrons and atomic theory were "silly." All of his inventions came to be through his firm belief that electricity was a classical fluid.
The photo caption is also extremely amusing.
Before that, it was the Dr. Horrible in 8-bit, but then Geeks of Doom caught wind of it, so it's no longer MY thing...