Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threat
Posted Nov 22, 2006 20:32 UTC (Wed) by
oak (guest, #2786)
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Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threat
Definition for a "patent" in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's "Devil's
Dictionary" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Dictionary)...
Patent:
A legalized robbery which allows a group of lawyers to extort
protection money from the customer against other people using
the same ideas. Regardless whether the customer is an innovator
or not.
What elevates this protection racket above others is that:
- This "innovation" "protection" is expounded as absolutely
necessary by all kinds of commercial institutes
- The "protection" is granted for about everything, so that
it's impossible not to require "protection" in both directions
- The documents about what these "protections" cover are written
in "lawyerese" and to understand them you need a lawyer and
sometimes a (very expensive) round in the courts too
"Swindler's handbook" should have a whole example section on this scam...
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