Patents are worthwhile only as far as they are respected. A factory is a real asset employing many real people. Anyway, why does SV have a lock on design? If a

Patents are worthwhile only as far as they are respected. A factory is a real asset employing many real people. Anyway, why does SV have a lock on design? If anything computer design has gotten very stale since the early 90s when all the competitors to American computer systems finally croaked