Right, all the big corporate interests form oligopalys to shut out further competition. But if I were Microsoft I'd watch out. I'm sure the pharmaceutical industry feels very threatened by all the negative attention the software industry has brought towards patents. When Microsoft is applying for 3-5 thousand patents a year! and getting 500-1000 patents granted, $800 million drug research costs are threatened. No doubt somebody inside Microsoft told Brad Smith to STFU after that fortune article.
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Why not? The government took the Mafia's "numbers game" racket too.
Right, all the big corporate interests form oligopalys to shut out further competition. But if I were Microsoft I'd watch out. I'm sure the pharmaceutical industry feels very threatened by all the negative attention the software industry has brought towards patents. When Microsoft is applying for 3-5 thousand patents a year! and getting 500-1000 patents granted, $800 million drug research costs are threatened. No doubt somebody inside Microsoft told Brad Smith to STFU after that fortune article.