On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:01:39PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > Ugh. And here I thought the whole point of a patent was to cover > a novel method of achieving something, not to grant a monopoly on > the thing to be achieved. How naïve you are. Welcome to the new capitalism. Monopolies good. Police and courts protecting your markets good. Guaranteed revenue streams good. State-protected business models good. Competition bad. Invisible hand bad. Product reviews bad. Independent scientific research bad. -- G. Branden Robinson | The best place to hide something is Debian GNU/Linux | in documentation. branden@debian.org | -- Ethan Benson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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