Re: Preventing CFIT

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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:11:05 GMT, Jed Margolin <news@jmargolin.com> wrote:

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> Marc,
> I have not "stifled" anyone. I have no intention of "stifling" anyone.
> I would like to receive some compensation for the time and
> money I have put into it.
> Marc, do you work for free? And would it be reprehensible
> if you tried to stop someone from stealing your airplane?
> When I started working on the Pilot Aid, around 1994 and
> did a search for prior art, I expected to find that someone had already
> done it.
> I was surprised (and appalled) that this was not the case.
> My attempts to bring this technology to the attention of aerospace companies
> have not been very successful.
> > Stifling such innovation"   WILL kill people, MANY people,
> and destroy the lives
> > of friends and family.
> Marc, instead of working yourself up into a rage accusing me of stifling
> innovation, killing people and destroying the lives of friends and families
> (you forget "killing babies"),  you should ask yourself why the Aerospace
> companies are so resistant to applying technology to make flying safer.
> Is it because they are so busy devouring each other that they have forgotten
> what business they're in?
> Is it because the people who run the Aerospace companies have no respect
> for engineers?  The Aerospace companies pay their engineers poorly,
> treat them like crap, and then complain they can't hire enough engineers
> to work on their latest contract.
> What about the several 100K engineers they've laid off in the past 10
> years?
> The Aerospace companies have only lately begun to notice that the drop-off
> in the number Aerospace Engineering majors in the Engineering colleges
> is even worse than the drop-off rate in Engineering majors in general.
> "I know, let's increase the number of H1-B visas. That will solve the
> problem and let us continue to pay the engineers poorly and trap them like
> crap. And if they complain we can just have them deported and get some
> some new ones."
>  
> Marc, you are aiming your poisoned arrow at the wrong person.
>  
> Regards,
> Jed Margolin
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> "D.F.S." wrote:
> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Jim Fisher <VarsityJim@aol.com> wrote:
> > Uhh, this differs from what's already available in what way?
> > What am I missing?
> > Jim Fisher
> > North Alabama
> > Cherokee 180
> I doesn't. I have downloaded free demos of the internet that do realtime
> generation of 3D maps for free.
> The problem is he convinced the patent office it does and got exclusive
> rights to it.
> The "Representation" of 3D clause would be EASILY be applied to any
> map display
> system that provides terrain and obstruction info, INCLUDING approach
> plates
> and plain old scanned images of sectionals.
> We are (or were) poised on the leading edge of an explosion of incredible
> capabilities and the huge safety advantage systems like this will or
> could
> provide. Some guy getting a strangle hold on the "Right" to build such
> systems and shutting everyone else down or extorting large sums of
> money from
> anyone who make a success out of selling such systems will bring it
> all to
> a screeching halt.
> Stifling such innovation WILL kill people, MANY people, and destroy
> the lives
> of friends and family.
> I find that reprehensible.
> And as he said himself:
> "What makes you think I am not willing to defend the patent?"
> Nothing, I fully expect you and your contingency fee lawers will go
> after
> any and every deep pocket that will dare provide such a "Novel" system
> as a cockpit moving map.
> Marc
>  
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