I despise the creeping over-reach of patent law, the obscene expense of actually getting a patent, the ridiculously low de facto standards of patentability, the difficulty and expense of challenging a competitor's patent that should never have been issued in the first place, and the all-too-convenient Slashdot attitude that patents should be eliminated in their entirety.
Moreover, there is almost nothing I despise more than copycat business models, franchises, and turnkey businesses. Franchise owners are nothing but modern-day serfs who were tricked into giving up their money for a hard life that will never make them rich. They are ridiculously beholden to the corporation, and there is no way out but bankruptcy, because no one will ever buy the franchise for what they put into it.
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Why do I have to read all this classified garbage on Slashdot? Is the NSA's shredder broken?
I despise the creeping over-reach of patent law, the obscene expense of actually getting a patent, the ridiculously low de facto standards of patentability, the difficulty and expense of challenging a competitor's patent that should never have been issued in the first place, and the all-too-convenient Slashdot attitude that patents should be eliminated in their entirety. Moreover, there is almost nothing I despise more than copycat business models, franchises, and turnkey businesses. Franchise owners are nothing but modern-day serfs who were tricked into giving up their money for a hard life that will never make them rich. They are ridiculously beholden to the corporation, and there is no way out but bankruptcy, because no one will ever buy the franchise for what they put into it.