Hey,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Ashok Hariharan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ashok@parliaments.info">ashok@parliaments.info</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>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. <br> <br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">


<div></div><div>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.<br></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div>Haven&#39;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 &#39;finance your proteins&#39; schema a la &#39;finance your [kid&#39;s university|car|house]&#39; scheme. Oh! wait, I&#39;ll patent that too<br>
</div></div><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091007/1318556449.shtml">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091007/1318556449.shtml</a><br><a href="http://yalepatents.org/2009/10/07/nobel-chemistry-work-patented-by-yale-and-others/">http://yalepatents.org/2009/10/07/nobel-chemistry-work-patented-by-yale-and-others/</a><br>
Patenting has become excessive = my take. Did you know sudo is patented too?<br><br>