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Hardware Hacker Proposes Patent and Education Reform To Obama

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-up dept.

ptorrone writes "In a welcome turn of events, President Barack Obama spoke directly to the patent troll problem and the need for more comprehensive patent reform yesterday in a 'Fireside Hangout' — a live question and answer session (video) hosted in a Google+ hangout. The President was responding to a question by the prominent electrical engineer and entrepreneur Limor 'Ladyada' Fried of Adafruit Industries, who in 2009 won an EFF Pioneer Award for her work with free software and open-source hardware."

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  1. So much for the guns by holophrastic · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess that's it for the focus on gun problems. Patent problems must be more important than mass elementary school shootings. Congrats on, once again, not even making a single attempt to improve the situation. Good job.

    1. Re:So much for the guns by holophrastic · · Score: 0, Troll

      That's precisely correct.

      And the skill of getting things done is to have a singular focus until the task is complete.

      Checks and balances a system specifically designed to ensure that leaders aren't able to get anything done. That's how you've solved the problem of corrupt leaders. And as a direct result, you can't effect change. Of any kind. At any time.

      Think about it. If apples were suddenly poisonous, you wouldn't be able to outlaw apples. It would take you ten years and still the apple lobbyists and the apple industries, and the apple farmers and the apple black market, who all make money on apples, wouldn't let you make apples illegal.

      Guns, drugs, cigarettes, grafitti, patent trolls, slavery, wars, poor education, wellfare, healthcare. There are countries that effectively have absolutely none of these problems. And do it without a significant military, and without even knowing the names of their leaders.