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On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 16:08:07 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> NPR are lying sacks of shit ...

They did a nice exposé some years ago on the whole patent racket,
Mitch Kapor’s Intellectual Ventures company, and why so many of these
outfits have empty, uninhabited offices in East Texas:

<http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/04/138934689/the-tuesday-podcast-the-patent-war>

Does Donald Trump like software patents? Answers on a postcard,
please...