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by lofaszvanitt 17 days ago
Big corpo shenanigans, from the 80s. Any recent quotes?
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It's pretty much the modus operandi of any patent troll or in more general case - of any racketeer. Nothing new about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0_r4PDyCs&t=1m30s

That doesn't warrant a general ban on patents, just because some out of touch living in a fantasy reality kids have an erection saying this.
Ban on software patent is more than warranted, only trolls themselves don't like such idea obviously.

But what also needed is persecution these patent trolls for racket like any mob racketeers. There were attempts of persecuting them this way in the past, but they should be renewed.