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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kirk © who wrote (12234)	10/26/2021 1:26:11 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26779

>> Bill Gates got rich because I could not copy his software, But that is not a service exclusive to the super rich. Running a fair and efficient internal justice system is a common service that if the government, any government, fails to provide will be overthrown. I was only discussing what would be specific to the super rich. From that perspective, there is little that the government provides. MSFT or IBM or any of the big guys can sue their counterparty in other courts. They are multinational and have offices everywhere. >> the point then was we had this HUGE manufacturing cost to build hardware but software anyone could replicate with a PC and a floppy disk. I've taken graduate courses in IP law (and actually came at the top of my class). This is a key element of IP businesses. The same is true for music or books. But that is not the true service that the US provides to the super rich. Patent and copyright laws have been in effect for a very long time. The real service to the super rich was in extending the limits of IP laws well beyond what the constitution intended. You need to familiarize yourself with the evolution of the IP laws in the US to see how the scam works. In the class I posed the question to the professor (himself a practicing IP attorney) "Does the original intent matter? Does any court care about that?" The short answer was no.