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Considering that 99% of USA politics is driven by lobbying and big business this legislation has a snowballs chance in hell of actually passing without a lot of
by SeanDav 13y ago
Considering that 99% of USA politics is driven by lobbying and big business this legislation has a snowballs chance in hell of actually passing without a lot of watering down.
- rayiner 13y agoPossibly true, but what exactly are the Silicon valley companies on the receiving end of patent litigation if not big business?
- pessimizer 13y agoThis is big business vs. big business. Dinosaurs: Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Xerox. vs The New Hot Shit: Google, Facebook, Samsung, Red Hat and Yahoo. I'm not sure who's holding the most cash, but it's certainly not an easy call.
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- bdcravens 13y agoI wouldn't call Yahoo new. It IPO'ed 17 years ago, barely 10 years after Microsoft and Adobe. Red Hat IPO'ed 14 years ago. Even so, it only has a market cap of less than $9B, less than 1/3 of companies like Yahoo (and 1/30th of Google's). They do some neat things in open source and virtualization, but I wouldn't call them "hot".
- pessimizer 13y agoI would. They're web and Linux companies - technologies that are completely pervasive now, and didn't even exist when Microsoft and Adobe were already big companies. Innovators vs. Squatters. Isn't that the expected way this argument would shake out? Patents encumber innovation, not royalty checks.