Patent Nonsense

ziriyab writes: "This article from The Guardian, after a few paragraphs of corporation bashing, gives an interesting history of two countries (Switzerland and the Netherlands) who flourished without IP laws. The article, while not necessarily suggesting that the abandonment of patent protection is an essential precondition for development, seems to indicate that it can, in the right circumstances, be an effective tool."

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Do away wit it all

[YoPt]

Hell, Notthing in the last 15 years has changed the way I eat sleep or crap. Lets just do way with the whole "Invention" process all together and start combining the old patents into one patent. Although Gates will then try to say it was his.