Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
I'm afraid we will have to agree to disagree. If you think things like "patent
enforcement" == "government protected monopoly", we are at an impasse.
Well, leaving aside what one thinks of patents and copyrights - a
"government protected monopoly" is EXACTLY what a patent is, by definition:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for
limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Or do you have some different definition of "exclusive Right?"
But we digress.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
