{"id":1162,"date":"2016-07-05T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?page_id=1162"},"modified":"2016-07-05T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T21:20:13","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Little History<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a9 2016 Don Baker<\/p>\n

I thought a little history might be in order.\u00a0 One of the members of reddit.com\/r\/guitars made an unfortunate comment asking me if I was a \u201cpatent troll\u201d.\u00a0 Well, patent trolls don\u2019t spend years working on their ideas just to sue big companies with deep pockets.<\/p>\n

Have you ever gone up against lawyers by yourself?\u00a0 If you had, you might understand why William Shakespeare suggested killing them all.\u00a0 Lawyers are the patent trolls.\u00a0 And too often big companies are patent poachers, who use their lawyers to fend off the independent inventors who developed the patents they poach.\u00a0 Large companies have poached an idea or two of mine.\u00a0 Citizens United may have given corporations the right to free speech in politics, but it didn\u2019t guarantee which ones have any morals.<\/p>\n

No, we do this as a labor of love and vision, often with about as much hope of reward as winning Publishers Clearing House.\u00a0 It\u2019s great to have vision.\u00a0 It\u2019s even better to have the means to achieve it.\u00a0 And if you don\u2019t have the means, the do-ray-me, the scratch, the grease, the lucre, the green, the coin, at least you can write about it.\u00a0 If for nothing else than to make it morally harder for large companies to claim your intellectual property as their own.<\/p>\n

The following list is presented in the order of newest first, if and when the articles are added.<\/p>\n

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  1. Shooting the Bullet<\/strong><\/a> – A<\/strong>pril-May 2005<\/strong> \u2013 simulating android originals LC artwork on a Fender Bullet \u2122 guitar with PhotoShop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A Little History \u00a9 2016 Don Baker I thought a little history might be in order.\u00a0 One of the members of reddit.com\/r\/guitars made an unfortunate comment asking me if I was a \u201cpatent troll\u201d.\u00a0 Well, patent trolls don\u2019t spend years … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}