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____/ Mark S Bilk on Thursday 23 Jun 2011 03:25 : \____
> On Jun 22, 1:58 pm, Hadron<hadronqu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > We already know that patent extortion is the last thing companies do
>> > before they implode.They just cannot yield anything of real substantial
>> > value. I took some time aside to campaign against software patents. To
>> > summarise the key findings, Bill Gates, world's biggest extortionist who
>> > misuses a $500,000,000,000/annum education budget to indoctrinate the young
>> > and lobby for companies like Monsanto (for profit) so that even _ALL_
>> > our food becomes patented, i.e. taxed, also created the world's
>> > biggest patent troll, with whom he lobbies against elimination of software
>> > patents this month. Their plan it to turn Windows tax into patent
>> > tax _on all_ technology. Nasty, nasty people. US ctzizens: Report them to
>> > the authorities and explain to family/friends. These bullies see themselves
>> > as overly entitled and they control the government with their money. Bill
>> > Gates also spends _on average_ $1 million _per day_ buying the press, not
>> > donation. It's a reputation laundering operation that distracts the public.
>> > Having seen the writings on the wall ($18 billion in losses for MSFT in
>> > 1998) they move on to their next scheme for world domination.
>>
>> > "Intellectual property is the next software."
>>
>> > --Nathan Myhrvold, world's biggest patent troll, Gates' mate, former
>> > Microsoft CTO
>>
>> >http://www.newsweek.com/id/55777/page/2
>>
>> > "He [Bill Gates] acted like a spoiled kid, which is what he was."
>>
>> > --Ed Roberts, Gates' employer at MITS in the 1970's
>> > (Atlanta Journal-Costitution,
>> > 04-27-97)
>
> The Microsoft Corporation, through one of its propaganda agents
> (using the false identity "Hadron"), wrote:
>
>> Roy, we're all curious.
>> What SW have you contributed/given away for free?
>> You seem pretty keen to see others do it. What have YOU contributed?
>> As a big mouth that you are, I feel sure that you would not be up there
>> whining about others had you not contributed lots yourself. And since
>> you're out there in the open, maybe you could list the SW you have
>> contributed?
>> We all had a good laugh the other day at you being unable to compile
>> Linux SW on your own! Creepy Chris Ahlstrom and TomB are on record as
>> saying its "really really simple". Even if they didn't understand the
>> difference between configure and ./configure and neither seemed aware of
>> the dangers of making "as root".
>
> And previously in this thread, the Microsoft Corporation, through
> another
> of its propaganda agents (using the false identity "Big Steel"),
> wrote:
>
>>The only thing we know is that Roy has wet dreams about this. He needs
>>his wet dream release - COLA.
>
> Microsoft's goal is to rob the people of the world by means of
> software
> patents. It can't justify this practice -- note that none of its
> responses
> even mention the subject -- so it resorts to multiple personal
> attacks
> instead. Please remember, if you buy Microsoft products, or any
> product containing Microsoft software, some of your money goes to
> pay immoral people to publish these attacks.
>
> Patents are never supposed to be issued for works that are obvious,
> yet the ideas and techniques covered by most software patents
> _are_ obvious to skilled software programmers. A famous example is
> purchasing an item from a website by means of a single mouse click:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
>
> Here is more info on the great harm done by software patents --
> which essentially make it very difficult for anyone to write
> software unless they are employed by a huge corporation with
> lots of lawyers (like, of course, Microsoft). Because writing
> any software involves creating ideas and techniques, and you
> never know if they've been covered by any of the hundreds of
> thousands of software patents that have already been issued.
>
> Software patents â Obstacles to software development
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html
>
> Fighting Software Patents - Singly and Together
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html
>
> Roy Schestowitz' website -- much of it devoted to software patents
> http://techrights.org
>
> Welcome back to COLA, Roy!
Thanks, glad to be back.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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