Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 19 January 2008 08:51 : \____
>
>> It dates back to the
>> guilds
>
> It does indeed (with evidence recently shown by Glyn Moody), but this is the
> age of the neo-guilds, aka predatory monopolies.
>
The guilds were the closed-shops of their day, a sort of combination of
union and monopoly all in one. The patent system is being abused in
order to recreate the same thing in C21, but for very large businesses.
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