get a deal on a person. i want to pay or overpay somebody is fer doif they re do job. you have to pay people. they can t work for free. let s move on now to a question from soli who owns an app store. he asks, we create great education educational software. how do we protect our patents with may injure corporations with deep pockets without spending thousands of dollars on patent lawyers? can he? so i would say in short you can t nor should you try. i think the way you are going to beat these big companies is by outexecuting, by having phenomenal client relationships. have a great company. that s how to defend. if someone really wants to steal your idea, they have longer time lines than you and deeper pockets. i wouldn t even come at it from that angle. i can t even argue with a single word you just said. that s 100% right. this begs the question, should you get a patent in the first place? if you don t have enough money to defend it, should you get
ask fawaz very quickly on that issue. if there is going to be a diplomatic settlement, fawaz, very quickly, is russia the key? and can it be wooed? russia is a pivotal player, but this conflict, fareed, is a regional conflict. you have to involve the regional powers. turkey, saudi arabia and iran. you can not bounce around inn, hezbollah and iraq and take in saudi arabia. i hope the united states, the obama administration uses this particular moment to renew efforts of diplomacy, try to involve the regional powers who have major stakes in the conflict inside syria to end the carnage. this is not about the credibility of the u.s. presidency, this is about stopping the blood shed inside syria and the killing that has been taking place for two years and a half. we have to get out, soli, fawaz, thank you very much.
global public square. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from istanbul, turkey. we ve been talking about the situation in neighboring syria. should the united states strike damascus or not? what do people in the region think? soli ozel is a professor of international relations at turkey s university and fawaz gerges is in london. he is the author of obama and the middle east, the end of america s moment. welcome, both. soli, let me ask you, if the united states miscalculated about the durability of the assad regime, so did syria s next-door neighbor, turkey. the prime minister also thought assad would go and declared he was going to go and seems to have been caught in a similar miscalculation. turkey has been trying to build up some kind of moderate, legitimate alternative to assad as a political leadership and
ask fawaz very quick low on that issue. if there is going to be a diplomatic settlement, fawaz, very quickly, is russia the key? and can it be wooed? russia is a pivotal player, but this conflict, fareed, is a regional conflict. you have to involve the regional powers. turkey, saudi arabia and iran. you can not bounce around inn, hezbollah and iraq and take in saudi arabia. i hope the united states, the obama administration uses this particular moment to renew efforts of diplomacy, try to involve the regional powers who have major stakes in the conflict inside syria to end the carnage. this is not about the credibility of the u.s. presidency, this is about stopping the blood shed inside syria and the killing that has been taking place for two years and a half. we have to get out, soli, fawaz, thank you very much. i m sorry we had to cut you off.