{"id":1160,"date":"2008-03-30T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T09:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/walking-hotspot-patent-pending.html"},"modified":"2008-03-31T08:46:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T06:46:43","slug":"walking-hotspot-patent-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Walking Hotspot patent pending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it\u00b4s funny that this web site says that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkinghotspot.com\">walking hotspot <\/a>is a patent pending solution.  At Fon we have been writing about this for two years.  One of our ideas was to give foneras connected to 3G to homeless people so instead of begging they would offer WiFi.  In any case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.then82blog.com\/2008\/03\/freeware-joikuspot-light-share-your.html\">JoikuSpot<\/a> is my favorite so far.  To me all these solutions only prove once more that if given a choice people prefer WiFi over 3G.  And my general view on patents btw is that they should only be allowed in fields in which clear proof can be given that without patents there would not be investments, like medicine.  I think patents in software and electronics just don\u00b4t make sense.  The few times I have done something with patents was as a defensive move.  I had a bad experience after inventing CallBack and allowing anyone to copy us and then somebody patented and said that we had to pay him to do call back.  We then proved prior art and won.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1160\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it\u00b4s funny that this web site says that the walking hotspot is a patent pending solution. At Fon we have been writing about this for two years. One of our ideas was to give foneras connected to 3G to homeless people so instead of begging they would offer WiFi. In any case JoikuSpot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}