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____/ Phil Da Lick! on Monday 11 August 2008 10:48 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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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?
>> |
>> | -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
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>> Yet the lying Oil Taycoon in the Sweater, who once denounced these patents,
^oops, typo.
>> suddenly likes them.
>
>
> Yet the same lying Sweatered Oil Tycoon once was part of a seminar with
> Apple denouncing the "evil" of IBM and their protectionism. "Trust us,
> we'll never be like big blue". Yeah right.
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
| To: Jeff Westorinen; Ben Fathi
| Cc: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
| Subject: ACPI extensions
|
| One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and
| make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific.
|
| It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the
| work and the results is that Linux works great without having to do the
| work.
|
| Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
|
| Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not
| the others even if they are open.
|
| Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
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http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
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