[geeks] Can't decide on an OS

[Mike Meredith]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:15:32 -0400 (EDT), Mouse wrote:
> Yeah, the US has made that bed and is having to lie in it.  That
> wouldn't be a problem, really, except that so much of the rest of the
> world seems to consider the US indispensable.

To be fair the patent problem is a world-wide problem; the patent
system seems to have evolved out of the old practice of monarchs
granting monopolies to their favourites, thus perhaps the most damaging
aspect of patents ... the right to exclude others from using the
invention that is patented.

Perhaps if patent holders were required to license their patents for a
reasonable proportion of the final product's purchase price, it would
greatly decrease the amount of damage that patents cause. Especially
software patents :)



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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
  "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any 
   good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." Howard Aiken