"Unfortunately, the "limited rights" (economic subsidy) to inventors are not very limited at all. This sort of takes away any motivation to help them acquire monopolies from work and ideas they frequently got unrestricted from the rest of society in the first place. I'm just hoping that of the next 100,000 great ideas, I'll be able to leverage a few of those. Gosh, how inefficient! Limiting the exploitation of ideas for 20 yrs to just 1 person instead of what is natural (unlimited use by all)."
"[t]he rules of the vote saw community members asked to rank each of the eight proposals. Just under 600 people voted, but Debian’s election team rejected many for unspecified reasons, leaving almost 450 valid votes to count."
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Jose_X
2009-05-27 12:16:25