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"Google owns countless patents and Apple just might be the biggest patent troll in history and none of them seem to receive even remotely the same amount of scr

• Kliment 11y ago
  Patents are like nuclear weapons - they stay dangerous for a very long time, most who have them claim their primary function is to scare others who have them away from attacking them with theirs, but their actual function is to scare and extort anyone who doesn't have them into doing what the patent-holding assholes want. Of course we want to hold anyone who has them under careful scrutiny.
  • vinceguidry 11y ago
    > Patents are like nuclear weapons - they stay dangerous for a very long time That is not actually true about nuclear weapons; they require regular maintenance. And they are like any other military technology, they get outdated and their designs have to be constantly refreshed. If a country doesn't maintain their nuclear arsenal, there's a very good chance that they might not work when they need it to. This happened to much of Russia's inventory. This, of course, gets factored into geopolitical strategy.