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Ask Nathan Myhrvold What You Will, Live Q&A April 3
He was the CTO at Microsoft, is an accomplished nature and wildlife photographer, and his cookbook Modernist Cuisine won a James Beard award, but Nathan Myhrvold is probably best known for being co-founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures. In 2009 the company launched a prototyping and research laboratory called Intellectual Ventures Lab. The lab has hired many prominent scientists to work on a variety of inventions including safer nuclear reactor designs and vaccine research. Under Myhrvold's direction Intellectual Ventures has purchased 40,000 patents and applications and internally developed over 2000 inventions, but not without controversy. Nathan has agreed to take some time to answer your questions but please limit yourself to one question per post. As a bonus on Wed. April 3, Nathan will be doing a live Q&A from 12-12:30pm PDT.
Slashdot is selling ad space to patent trolls now as well, bliss.
I vote for this question to be asked 10 times and nothing else.
>> accomplished nature and wildlife photographer
Cool story, bro. Sounds more like a way to get one's Wikipedia entry updated through use of SlashDot-as-citation to me.
Let's say I work at a company that makes a good, useful software product, which is the best in the market. How can I convince them not to patent my solutions, so that I don't contribute to a system that rewards people like you do the detriment of people who would succeed on merit?
Ah, Mr. Myhrvold, can you wait until your interview to answer the questions?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Can anybody think of a better, more specific question than that?
What is your username and password to your internal site?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Hey mods, Troll is not code for I disagree.