[grazulis@akl.lt: Re: "don't strip this poor guy" tactic]

[arebenti]

My first idea was inserting a hand that offers a noswpat T-Shirt to him.

Unfortunately I don't have it here and I didn't find a good yellow 
T-Shirt photo.

PILCH Hartmut schrieb:
> ----- Forwarded message from Saulius Grazulis <grazulis at akl.lt> -----
> 
> 
>>Not for the first time.  And its always about "computer-implemented
>>inventions". Showing some "inventor" in underwear, with the slogan
>>"Don't strip this guy of his clothes".
> 
> 
> I was thinking about such (counter-)demo (could be done in exhibition, along 
> with demonstrating some product):
> 
> A guy (programmer) in striped clothes (like ones that are weared in jail) sits 
> typing at the computer; he is chained to a table.
> 
> Next to him stands another guy (in a business suite ?), holding a key from the 
> chain.
> 
> A reporter comes and asks the programmer: "why are you chained to the table, 
> and why are you wearing these clothes?"
> 
> A programmer answers: "I have written a program and started selling it, but it 
> appeared to infringe on 200 patents. We had not money to pay royalties, so I 
> was put into jail."
> 
> A guy with a key confirms: "Yes, he infringed on my patents. We demanded 
> compensation for our damaged intelectual property, and since these nasty 
> programmers did not have enough money, we had to put them to jail, to put 
> others off in the future."
> 
> "So what is he doing here, if he is supposed to be in a jail?" -- a natural 
> question from the reporter.
> 
> A patent owner answers: "Well, he is the guy who can make this gey box work. 
> You see, we want to present our best-in-the world patented technology in this 
> exhibion, so that we can license our invaluable intelectual property and make 
> revenues from our patents. And I have not got a slightest clue how to program 
> these wonderful ideas into the computer -- not even from what our lawers have 
> written in the patents."
> 
> "But after the guy finishes his job, he will sure return back to jail. He is a 
> nasty infringer and must be punished for this".
> 
> Do you thik this would bring our message through?
> 
> :D
>