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How the patent system favors the borg
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| I find the patent system laughable.
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| -1- For the small guy it is just a way to publish your technology so it can
| be used by other bigger fish sans compensation. How many lawyers can you
| afford to pay full time?
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| -2- Its a great way for big companies to bully little ones.
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http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/how-the-patent-system-favors-the-borg.htm
Yet the lying Oil Taycoon in the Sweater, who once denounced these patents,
suddenly likes them.
The Permission Problem
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| In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to
| build an airplane in the United States. That was the result of a chaotic
| legal battle among the dozens of companies—including one owned by Orville
| Wright—that held patents on the various components that made a plane go. No
| one could manufacture aircraft without fear of being hauled into court.
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http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/08/11/080811ta_talk_surowiecki
Related:
Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress
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| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html
Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation
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| It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into
| a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within
| 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were
| pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations
| (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss
Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket
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| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from
| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
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http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsofts-pocket/
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