Record companies are going broke because distribution channels have cut out the middle man. Imagine trying to sell your record in Australia in 1990? Right now you just need Itunes. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Lmwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Ashok Hariharan <ashok@parliaments.info>wrote:
I wish someone had patented fire and sold it to the rest of the world. You and me would be paying money to light a match.
I guess if you havent invented something and had it stolen then you have nothing to worry about or to care for ....which is most of us.
Haven't you seen that a nobel prize was awarded for some work on figuring
out the way ribosomes work=Protein manufacture and they patented that. So I guess if you are living, you owe someone some royalties.. I think I can come up with a 'finance your proteins' schema a la 'finance your [kid's university|car|house]' scheme. Oh! wait, I'll patent that too http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091007/1318556449.shtml
http://yalepatents.org/2009/10/07/nobel-chemistry-work-patented-by-yale-and-... Patenting has become excessive = my take. Did you know sudo is patented too?
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