Lessig, quoting Gates: “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. The solution . . . is patent exchanges . . . and patenting as much as we can. . . . A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that someone’s reaction to a travesty of justice is “take advantage of it” rather than “make it right” but it’s not the way I was raised.
Secretly Ironic 