"Phil Da Lick!" <phil_the_lick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Also (much more recent):
“Nathan Myhrvold: The genesis of this idea was when I was at
Microsoft. We had
a problem with patent liability. All these people were coming to sue
us or
demand payment. And Bill (Gates) asked me to think about if there was a
solution. This is what I came up with.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122142717791833671.html
Racketeering scum.
We live in interesting times.
Indeed.
"All of this fear is from people who have guilty knowledge of their own
actions. There are lots of major tech companies that grew from zero to
gigantically successful in a very short period of time without investing
in their own inventions. They got there by using other people's
inventions."