| And here's another one: The idea that someone can come up with a solution: - prevent anyone else henceforth from using it without paying them, - enforce that by force and using taxpayer money, - stretching over political boundaries, - not even giving the remotest fair chance to the unborn to ever come up with that solution, - charge a price fixed by whatever whims tickle that person's fancy and deny others of a possibly cheaper solution - just to protect a possibly overvalued idea .. is extremely horrifying to me. Please refer this earlier post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4591253 |