| 648 - 14 is a highly significant majority. It also reverberates with the feel of Europe. Patents are restricting and having no patents allows for people to muck around and play with software to their hearts content knowing they dont have to worry about all that crap. Especially if there is a market in the US for good software. They can just invent it in Europe with no restrictions, patent it in the US and sell it there if they want to make a profit.
Why crap in your own back yard when you can just utilise someone elses who already has crap all over the place...you get to keep your own clean.
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs and insanity for everyone, but its always worked for me.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." (Ernest Hemingway) |