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Re: [News] Microsoft May Already Be Brainwashing Children Against FOSS

Verily I say unto thee, that Andrew Halliwell spake thusly:
> Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Patents encourage innovation you blithering idiot. It safeguards
>> your hard work and innovation from scurrilous freeloaders and
>> copycats like you.

You mean "hard work" like this:

[quote]
Among the design elements Michaels claims belong to Hop-on are speakers
placed on the sides of phones, and front and side buttons used to
activate camera and video features and to control music playing, such as
fast forwarding or replaying a tune'
[/quote]

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198900135

Such "innovation".

The problem with most so-called "invention" these days, is that is
patently isn't (pun intended). It's just a bunch of patent trolls
running around trying to con people out of money.

But then you know all about trolls, don't you Hardon?

> SOME patents
> Not patents in general
> The patent system is in the shitter at the moment because of software
> patents. Something that should NEVER have existed.

IMHO the whole concept of Intellectual Monopoly is a gross perversion of
the principles of academia and learning. Knowledge should be Free.
Period. What one /implements/ with that knowledge is another matter.
People should pay for /products/ and /services/ ... *not* ideas.

So some company expects to recoup their R&D costs ... let them actually
sell some tangible manifestation of those ideas to do so, not hold the
world to ransom with trade secrets and exclusivity (monopoly).

So they have competition that makes it difficult to recover those costs,
especially as that competition now has access to their academic research
... well excuse me while I wipe the tear from my glass eye. It's called
capitalism - they should learn to just compete fairly like everyone
else, and outsell the competition based purely on the /merits/ of their
products, not by using clandestine deals and racketeering.

How on earth did the world of commerce thrive before the advent of
Intellectual Monopolies, I wonder?

Add this to the fact that the vast majority of so-called "invention"
these days is just a bunch of crap, and the result is like a bunch of
hyenas fighting over the rotting corpse of a dead horse.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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