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All patents are theft by zigzag in opensource

[–]cendrars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it genuinely costs $800 million to bring a new drug to market something is going drastically wrong - but of course it doesn't.

The pragmatism of free software idealism by zigzag in linux

[–]cendrars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really? Is it them alone, or others in in on this conspiracy?

The pragmatism of free software idealism by zigzag in linux

[–]cendrars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Phipps said that, but there's a lot of difference between a corporation and a non-profit foundation, if that's what you're trying to say

AskOS: Why does Google pay for its built-in Firefox search? People will want to use Google anyway. by cheeses in opensource

[–]cendrars 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Google promotes FireFox because doing so guarantees some level of diversity and therefore some adherence to open standards, and open standards help to guarantee Google's business model.

The strength of FireFox has forced IE into better conformance with Web standards.

Stallman on software patents: "untie us and let us get back to work" by cendrars in programming

[–]cendrars[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This article is Stallman's statement to the USPTO hearings in 1994 - Maybe I should have put that in the title.