The man who invented SMS, forgot patent

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24 years ago, this finish man Matti Makkonenunder did during a pizza meeting in Copenhagen get a light bulb idea, the SMS. He explains it like an “ah-ha feeling” and he and his 3 buddies came up with what today is a multi billion dollar industry and did not earn a nickel, because they forgot to patent it. So their they are today, with the knowledge that they could been multi dollar millionaires. However they deserve to be superfamous, so Matti, we here at superfamous salute you and your brother in arms! [article - in swedish]

  • http://www.wearesuperfamous.com Linus

    Yeah, this story need to be dugg, so we can make it to diggnation! Hell yeah!

  • http://murobbs.com jorma

    I gues that man worked at the Nokia when he invented sms-messagin. There’s a catch. In Finlan company could claim employes patentents as its own after huge legal jumbomumbo.