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This trial was never about patents

This trial was never about patents

Posted Aug 31, 2012 14:16 UTC (Fri) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)
In reply to: This trial was never about patents by drag
Parent article: Look and feel lawsuits, the second time around

Quite. Way too many people have forgotten/never understood this.

On the other hand, you can make a good case that really blatent copying is unwise in the current social and legal context, precisely because you might end up in the situation Samsung has (of doing a good job and being condemned for it).

Perhaps join the pirate party to press for the restoration of some kind of meaningful balance to copyright and patent law.


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