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Originally posted by FightThePatent@Nov 18 2003, 02:32 PM
Patent Reform and Buying controlling stakes in a company....
you like long shots don't ya 
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As I said, the buying shares was a question that I saw brought up a while back and not answered well at the time. Was worth bringing it up again. And no it's not something I necessarily support. So, let's just make that clear.
As for Patent Reform, yes I do. And the more I see the more it is not a long shot. It may have been somewhat more of one when I first called for it, a few weeks prior to
when the FTC started taking wind of the Eolas situation. Even then it was worth it. There will be too many frivilous lawsuits, economic harm and trillions spent in the next ten years or so if the ridiculous patents are given a green light to legal extortion.
Since the news of the patent review with Eolas and the study that came out recommending this, it is not at all a long shot.
Either way, I prefer nukes, FTP. Not bloody and costly wars fought one hill at a time (one case at a time) and while everyone waits for that one battle thousands of others are taken to the cleaners. (How many webmasters and companies will be left standing by the time a trial -- if it gets to that -- comes up between Acacia and the IMPA-sued companies in 2005???)
Everyone agrees the atom bombs dropped on Japan saved millions of lives on both sides. We need a legislative nuke to similiarly save millions of dollars (and hundreds perhaps thousands of companies), and yes I'm all for that as the best (not the only, but the best) way to fight this enemy ... and the one behind it and the thousands behind them.