As with "reasonable and prudent", any skilled lawyer will simply twist the language to his or her client's benefit, regardless of the consequences to the innocent victims of the side effects.
Ever seen one of those exhibits of a lion lying down with a lamb? It's startling, but the lamb needs replaced every so often. Each company sees itself as a lion and the others...
The answer to your question is obvious: because if our own companies start ignoring patents right and left, sooner or later somebody will start question whether we need patents in order to innovate in the first place.
How would anybody in our family react to something like this?
Ideas like this would promptly be dropped in the midst of visions of being driven from one's own home by an armed mob ... of one's own wife/husband and children.
The pictures are an important part of the credibility of the blog. If nothing else, they added a thousand words to each post, all of them offered in evidence of her assertions.
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From the "law of unintended consequences" department
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The Real Problem With Open Source Spy Software
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Re: Execs don't think like humans...
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120314/01453118097/does-anyone-who-develops-new-produc ts-hollywood-ask-would-i-ever-actually-use-this.shtml#c169
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The problem with "definitional" rules
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As Heinlein Once Commented
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Re: GaGa?
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Re: So wait...
Or has that process started already anyway? :)
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Ahhh. Guilty Until Proven Innocent
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Hey! What about rocks?
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RIAA: Why should we discuss in public?
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The Movie and Recording Industries Have Spoken!
By which, of course, they also intend that as a privilege reserved for their noble selves. The Rule of Law is ONLY for the peasants.
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But ... but ... innovation is evil!
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Who was the account holder for CascadedBug?
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Corporations Aren't Human, Either
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So which school of voodoo is Varoufakis?
Chicago Voodoo
Austrian?
Inquiring minds want to know, given how our own Banking Cartel aka Federal Reserve has pwn3d the economics profession.
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Re: Re: Do "corporates" ever ASK the critical question?
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What does anybody expect?
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Re:
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Do "corporates" ever ASK the critical question?
Ideas like this would promptly be dropped in the midst of visions of being driven from one's own home by an armed mob ... of one's own wife/husband and children.
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Re: Blog not banned...
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