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Perhaps once the bigcorps have collected enough vaguery in their respective "intellectual property portfolios", we can just agree that everyones' technologies v

• briansmith 17y ago
  That's what the "bigcorps" will do. Then they will enter formal or informal cross-licensing agreements. But, they will still use their patents to crush any smaller competition.
  • noonespecial 17y ago
    That may be so for the short term, and certainly inside national boundaries, but I don't think the "rich countries own all of the ideas" thing is going to be a sustainable global equilibrium state. This will become the norm: http://www.scidev.net/en/news/brazil-breaks-patent-on-hivaids-drug.html http://www.scidev.net/en/news/brazil-breaks-patent-on-hivaid...