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It's Texas. With its Republican judiciary and Republican legislature and Republican executive branch, you'd think that things like cronyism and corruption and r

It's Texas. With its Republican judiciary and Republican legislature and Republican executive branch, you'd think that things like cronyism and corruption and rackets and other forms of meddling with the Invisible Hand of the Free Market would be frowned upon. You'd think Texas would be a paragon of Free Market economic ideology. But who am I kidding, you've lived here too. Minus a short stint in Denver, I've lived here my whole life. People can say you're speaking out your ass and call it bigotry all they want --and demand you return to Slashdot; it seems Hacker News considers itself above such lowly forums as Slashdot and Reddit-- but it doesn't change the truth of the matter. A majority of the citizenry of this state make their opinions on such matters perfectly clear with every vote in every election they participate in. Hell, there's a significant contingent belonging to the Tea Party who think the Republicans don't go far enough. They were significant enough to elect a Tea Party representative to the U.S. Senate. That's mental. The only real hope Texas has is that eventually the Hispanic block grows to eclipse the Republican block without falling prey to the Catholic priests who say in so many words that Jesus wanted you to vote Republican.

wakkalakka 13y ago
This is not about red vs. blue, Republican vs. Democrat, liberal vs. conservative, or anything else like it. Everyone tries to get their patent cases heard in this particular district in Texas the same way that everyone incorporates in Delaware. It's one particular legal venue that just happens to be friendly to certain vested interests. The reason to seek out this venue is because of nothing more than apolitical favoritism towards patent holders. That's all. Don't make this into something it's not.
- moocowduckquack 13y ago
  I see, so they are all pure I.P. idealogues who just happen to think in this way and are in no way influenced by the massive sums of money involved in that area of law, all in one particular district in Texas that has loads of sham company fronts incorporated there, but from the judges side there is nothing dodgy going on and definitely no politics. I mean, you could be right, but it doesn't seem terribly likely when you look at it.
DenisM 13y ago
In all honesty of would be better if the two of you went somewhere else with your inflammatory rethoric. If you have a case, or a hypothesis for one, state it clearly, and without name-calling. There are enough places on the Internet for mud-slinging, let's keep at least one or two for civilized discourse.

wakkalakka 13y ago

This is not about red vs. blue, Republican vs. Democrat, liberal vs. conservative, or anything else like it. Everyone tries to get their patent cases heard in this particular district in Texas the same way that everyone incorporates in Delaware. It's one particular legal venue that just happens to be friendly to certain vested interests. The reason to seek out this venue is because of nothing more than apolitical favoritism towards patent holders. That's all. Don't make this into something it's not.

moocowduckquack 13y ago
I see, so they are all pure I.P. idealogues who just happen to think in this way and are in no way influenced by the massive sums of money involved in that area of law, all in one particular district in Texas that has loads of sham company fronts incorporated there, but from the judges side there is nothing dodgy going on and definitely no politics. I mean, you could be right, but it doesn't seem terribly likely when you look at it.

DenisM 13y ago

In all honesty of would be better if the two of you went somewhere else with your inflammatory rethoric. If you have a case, or a hypothesis for one, state it clearly, and without name-calling. There are enough places on the Internet for mud-slinging, let's keep at least one or two for civilized discourse.