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| Authored by: stegu on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 02:50 PM EDT |
I am not familiar with the underlying meanings of English
idioms, but this old saying has an equivalent in Swedish,
and I have always assumed that its message was a lot more
arrogant than "don't just sit there, do something".
The weather is not something you can "do anything about",
which makes the phrase more of an advice to stop whining
about things you can't control, and come to terms with it.
This is actually terribly bad advice in this situation,
because patent law is very obviously made my people
and can be changed by people.
However, reading the article, which I hope you have done,
it becomes apparent that what the author means is that
you *can* do something about it, and he is pointing to
the options. I think the solution he proposes is a very
elegant one, and one that has clear and convincing
precedent with a history of success for a similar
patent overreach problem in the 1950's. If only the
patent industry could be swayed to support it, it
could at least make a big difference for the better.
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- Agreed - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 03:49 PM EDT
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