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Setting Boundaries

rjriley 14th May 2009

I hope that Australia will do what America should have done a long time ago and reign in Intel.

Like America Australia has a vigorous and productive inventor community. Those inventors create jobs and bring prosperity to their communities. The problem is that transnational corporations are crushing independent, academic and small business inventors and transferring the benefits of their inventions to low wage countries.

While I think that Intel deserves quality time they are by no means the only company whose conduct deserves scrutiny. I suggest that any of the members of of a trade group going by the name of the Coalition for Patent Fairness are equally deserving. Companies like Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Micron, Dell, HP, Apple and the rest of the Piracy Coalition members are in my opinion all deserving.

Good business is based on delivering fair value and good service. Lasting business to business is based on equitable profit. It is unfortunate that many if not most large businesses lose track of these guiding principles.

Today transnational corporations have become greedy parasites who take advantage of people in developed and developing countries alike.

The reality of so called "Free Trade" is Irresponsible Trade which benefits the transnational at the expense of everyone else.

Small business usually only grows by taking good care of their customers while big business often conducts themselves in a manner which would in the absence of their ability to influence the authorities likely lead to criminal or civil enforcement actions.

The pendulum swung too far in favor of disreputable business interests and it is long past the time that that these businesses have boundaries.

Ronald J. Riley,

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