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While I agree with you, I can't see how we could ever fix the issue.

The same patent holders are the biggest backers of our politicians and will absolutely never allow any reasonable fix to the system itself.

All I read is how we should vote and yell at our representatives, completely ignoring the fact they were only elected because of donations from those benefiting from this system in the first place.




It costs relatively very little to "buy" Washington. Any group of fang like companies could do it and have good reason to do so.

NZ abolished software patents years ago, literally nothing bad happened as a result, companies didn't even notice.




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