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Originally Posted by plib
No doubt. More jobs than software and internet based corporations, or automobile companies, or genetic engineering and pharmaceutical companies without question. And much better for alleviating worldwide misery than polio vaccines, anti-malarial drugs, oral contraceptives etc.
No question that the mouse deserves monopoly protection at least 350% longer than the unimportant patents which protect such irrelevant inventions and companies. And Al Gore is in trouble - his internet patent just expired! 
(BTW - I think your sarcasm meter needs servicing. Maybe the patent on that has expired also?) |
You keep forgetting that, due to companies like the one with that mouse, people in countries like China and Vietnam where there stuff is produced enjoy living standards 100 times better than as little as 10 years ago. And they can now afford the vaccines and drugs. Unlike the places that haven't been touched by the Mouse and its companions which still rely on handouts.