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Patents of Business Destruction

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

SnapShot writes "Over on Slate there's an opinion article on the Blackberry patent case. Here's a quote: 'It's easy to bash trolls as evil extortionists, to do so may be to miss an important lesson: Patent trolls aren't evil, but rational and predictable, akin to the mold that eventually grows on rotten meat. They're useful for understanding how the world of software patent got to where it is and what might be done to fix it.' "

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  1. Funny definition of useful by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Patent trolls aren't evil, but rational and predictable, akin to the mold that eventually grows on rotten meat
    Why can't they be both evil and predictablel, just as rotten meat is both nasty and predictable? Oh, right - it wouldn't be a flamebait article to get everyone to knee-jerk piss all over it. Must be some stupid site trolling for hits(me checks calendar - yep, Troll Tuesday - figures)