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____/ RonB on Thursday 20 August 2009 10:39 : \____
> Phil Da Lick! wrote:
>
>> There's blood in the water...
>>
>> Sooner the bigwigs like M$ push for abolishing pure software patents the
>> better. "navigating internet content on a television"... yeah thats
>> surely reoluvtionary and deserving of a patent that one. Same goes for
>> the other - wonder how long until they go after the iphone on that one.
>
> But that's not the way it works. Patent reform will affect small
> companies suing big corporations, not vice versa. Notice how there was
> no movement in Congress to "reform" the patent law when Microsoft was
> suing TomTom? Kind of like how they recently "reformed" the bankruptcy
> law to make it harder for private citizens and small companies to use
> it, while simultaneously relaxing bankruptcy laws for corporations (so
> they could get out of promised pension plans, etc.).
The RICO Act should be brought back into enforcement then. Microsoft has
engaged in racketeering against Linux _for years_. Melco is the latest known
victim.
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