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?