If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today...A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose.br /
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Now guess who said that originally?br /
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Linus Torvalds? Wrong.br /
Richard Stallman? Wrong.br /
Muesli? No-ho.br /
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Bill Gates? Just kidding. bOh no, wait./b He did. a href=http://chris.de/exit.php?url_id=775amp;entry_id=212 title=http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html?tag=nefd.ac onmouseover=window.status='http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html?tag=nefd.ac';return true; onmouseout=window.status='';return true;He really did./abr /
Maybe he was developing an opensource OS named Billux back then? Just guessing, though.br /
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...muesli