"In the beginning, there were ideas; and they were good. Then Gates took the ideas, and the right to use the ideas, and hid behind a patent law that let him claim the ideas as his own...Then he patented the air, the sky, and the sea, and...."
Seriously though...Microsoft set a president for stupid patents, they established the right of a company to patent concepts before they were even developed and then used that right to restrict legitimate technology from being sold. I think it is ridiculous. But Microsoft made the rules. Now they are mad because cheating only works when your the only one allowed to do it.
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