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____/ Rex Ballard on Sunday 07 September 2008 00:31 : \____
> On Sep 5, 11:23 am, Patriot Games <Patr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 03:32:20 -0700 (PDT), Rex Ballard
>>
>> <rex.ball...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >On Sep 4, 8:29 pm, "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_st...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:54:51 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> >> > McCain advised by software patent & tobacco lobbyists?
>> >McCain has made public statements which in effect say "I'm in
>> >Microsoft's Pocket".
>>
>> Yet you FAILED to CITE even one...
>
> A bit hard to show a URL for something you see on CNN or Fox News.
>
> At the Republican Convention, several "Innovators" who also happen to
> be huge contributors to Republican campaigs and causes were displayed
> in a Montage - including Bill Gates.
Case of point (photos):
Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of More Patents?
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| It's interesting that AT&T is bragging about its pursuit of "more patents"
| rather than, say, more R&D spending or more innovation. AT&T isn't exactly
| known for its record of high-tech innovation, so it's a little surprising to
| see it hold itself out as a poster child for the patent system—particularly
| when we remember that AT&T and other telco incumbents have used the patent
| system to extort tens of millions of dollars from companies like Vonage that
| are actually innovating.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080901/1010232136.shtml
AT&T patent perpetrator tries to censor a blogger about their "pursuit of more
patents"
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| AT&T patent perpetrator tries to censor a blogger about their "pursuit of
| more patents". The blogger has published a picture of an advertisement poster
| paid by "AT&T Intellectual Property" sponsoring the Democratic National
| Convention in Denver last week.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-86401/at-t-patent-perpetrator-tries-to-censor-a-blogger-about-their-pursuit-of-more-patents
AT&T Makes the Case for Patent Reform
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| Think the current patent process is corrupt, too open to abusive
| patent-seeking and unduly influenced by corrupt rent-seeking special
| interests? Well, AT&T is here to disabuse you of that notion...
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http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/att_makes_the_case_for_patent_reform.php
Also new:
McCain senior advisor Carleton Fiorina
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| But the fact is. A company that wants to invest in patent lawyers can expand
| the number of patents it holds as it likes. Just reallocate resources to the
| legal department. And HP under Carly Fiorina did that, increased the number
| of patents it applied for dramatically. But does it mean more innovation?
|
| [...]
|
| I recently noticed that SUN Microsystems announced to abandon its patent
| inflation strategy as over-patenting was not worth the investment. It is
| difficult to assess the strategic value of a mine field and you don't find
| good data how much profit is generated by patents, which patents generate
| profit or benefit for the company and which are not worth the investment. In
| most companies investments in patents follow a rule of thumb. Large holders
| seek profit with patent portfolios like hunters with a shotgun aim for a
| flock of birds.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-86439/mccain-senior-advisor-carleton-fiorina
McCain advised by software patent & tobacco lobbyists?
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| McCain is advised by pro-software patent lobbyist Ray Gifford, ex-President
| of the Progress & Freedom Foundation (a Washington 'think-tank' notably
| financed by Microsoft lobby proxy CompTIA). Gifford was speaking in a
| conference Europe about the failed software patent directive with all the
| pro-software patent lobbyists. Progress & Freedom Foundation runs the
| IPCentral blog.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-86361/mccain-advised-by-software-patent-tobacco-lobbyists
>> Are you a liar?
He's not, but you sure seem like a troll, so you're accusation is next to
worthless.
> Some people think I am. And sometimes my memory of exact names,
> dates, and publications can be fuzzy, but I try to be as honest as
> possible.
>
> Keep in mind that I read hundreds of pages of tech journals per week,
> watch CNN and Fox News, and Listen to NPR Radio, and read web sites.
>
> McCain fought the Republican "Money Machine" for decades, and tried to
> reform campaign finance. I suspect that when he got all those votes
> that gave him the nomination, the Republican Party pretty much shoved
> the money in his face and told him he pretty much had to take it.
>
> The Right Wing Republican Lobbyists don't want to see Obama in power,
> and may have hoped for a more "buyable" Vice Presidential candidate.
> McCain pretty much messed that up, by picking the wildest Maverick and
> corruption fighter in the Republican Party.
>
> I wonder if Sara Palin would put Air Force One on E-Bay?
>
> Microsoft is small potatoes compared to defense contractors, oil
> companies, tobacco companies, arms manufacturers, right wing
> fundamentalist churches, and communications companies.
>
> The big contributors in those industries did very well under George
> Bush, and "Maverick McCain" or Obama would be really bad for that. On
> the other hand, President McCain might be a bit less inclined to fire
> all of the Republican Bush Appointees and Debuty Director career men
> who have set up all of these "Sweetheart deals", especially under
> Chaney, who was a career man with the CIA prior to George H.W. Bush
> (Bush 1). And George H.W. Bush was CIA prior being VP for Reagan
> (with a job or two between).
>
> The quote that McCain gave was "I believe technologies should be
> encouraged to fully profit from their Innovaions". Which is almost a
> direct quote of Bush in early 2000 when he was still trailing and just
> before he moved into the lead. That was a direct quote of Bill Gates
> made repeatedly to the press and the courts during the contempt trial
> and the antitrust trial.
>
> If McCain is elected, it's pretty obvious that he will continue the
> "Do Nothing" policy of the Bush DOJ with regard to Microsoft's case.
>
> Obama is a bit more likely to actually enforce the rulings of the
> court, and the settlements, but even that's not a sure thing.
Microsoft's proxies already try to 'soften' his (read: grease up). Example from
yesterday:
BSA lobbies Obama for software patents at the Democratic Convention in Denver
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| IP-watch tell us that BSA went to lobby Obama at the Democratic Convention in
| Denver with a list of principles, where the first one is "inspire creativity
| and innovation through strong, comprehensive, and enforceable intellectual
| property policies, including copyright, patent and trademark laws." Software
| patents are definitely on the top of the agenda of American multinationals.
| BSA does not has any small software company in its members, and Microsoft
| more active then the other members in using the association as a vector for
| its purposes.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-86815/bsa-lobbies-obama-for-software-patents-at-the-democratic-convention-in-denver
http://tinyurl.com/68wgn9
Obama et al have already f*ed up by sidling with Microsoft:
Democrats can't run Linux
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| THE U.S. Democratic Party has been touting its IT credentials as proof that
| it is a better bet than luddite John McCain who has never turned on a
| computer.
|
| However, cracks in the Democrats' veneer have been showing lately, notably
| with the appointment of the technology and privacy anti-Christ Joe Biden as
| vice presidential candidate. It seems the Democrat's open sauce credentials
| are being questioned.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/26/democrats-ban-linux
- --
"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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