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"Because their prosperity relies entirely on ideas"
Not so. Their prosperity relies entirely and solely upon enacting (writing), selling, distributing, and supporting software that embodies ideas. They are, in fact, SOFTWARE companies. Their job and its concomitant reward is to embody those ideas into reliable and robust machine code.

We can all argue endlessly that certain, well known, companies have accomplished this rather poorly but prospered very well. This is mostly due to the software "patents" that they hold that prevents others from creating value by, perhaps, creating better and more robust machine code.
Posted by: msolgeek   Posted on: 09/21/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Looks like a dodge to me  John L. Ries | 09/21/06
Have sympathy.  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
Absolutely right  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/21/06
The good old days...  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
Whose ox?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/21/06
Yes, winners like to keep their gains.  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
Why should that be of concern to anyone else?  John L. Ries | 09/21/06
Also, Google shows large companies can grow...  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
Mr. Ries, defense of property is public policy...  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
Anton: Yes, and property is...  John L. Ries | 09/22/06
Prove it....  techboy_z | 09/21/06
Susceptible to proof.  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
Would you have us patent ideas?  msolgeek | 09/21/06
Congratulations, Anton  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/21/06
Spirit of '76.  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
I disagree  voska | 09/22/06
Put up or ...  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/21/06
None whatever  John L. Ries | 09/21/06
Legal fictions are solemn things.  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
"Because their prosperity relies entirely on ideas"  msolgeek | 09/21/06
Suppose another company used the same ideas...  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
So what's your idea of an "idea?"  msolgeek | 09/21/06
None mentioned.  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06
So you have no idea.  msolgeek | 09/22/06
"... a monkey may have an idea."  Anton Philidor | 09/22/06
I don't see the problem here  voska | 09/22/06
Call it what you want  John L. Ries | 09/21/06
Ridicuclous  Mectron | 09/21/06
Best example of software patents...  #_z | 09/21/06
M$ is behind it  Linux Geek | 09/21/06
When do you sleep  wadoz1 | 09/21/06
M$ is sending people out to take you for a joyride  Boot_Agnostic | 09/23/06
From Bill to Anton  j.dupont | 09/21/06
The whole discussion.  Anton Philidor | 09/21/06

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