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Cato Institute Critique of Software Patents
binarybits writes "I've written an article for the free-market Cato Institute about how patents impede innovation in the software industry. It points out that people tend not to realize how vast the software industry is. It's not just Google and Microsoft; virtually every organization has an IT department producing potentially-infringing software. Organizations as diverse as J. Crew and the Green Bay Packers have been sued for patent infringement. It's crazy to expect all these organizations to worry about potential patent infringement. Hopefully the Supreme Court's Bilski decision will lead to new limits on software patents."
And nachos. Don't forget nachos.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Four things. Money, sex , cars, nachos, and beer.
I'll come in again.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Cato isn't right-wing enough? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Libertarianism is defined by the non-aggression principle. Fascism, on the other hand, is a heresy of socialism, and not all forms of collectivism are fascism. Libertarianism has an acid test, whereas fascism is often too blended with other Statist and collectivist ideologies to accurately isolate.
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