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Professor Michael Geist has just tweeted -- quite correctly -- that: "According to the US, over 4.3 billion people live in countries with intellectual property laws worthy of complaint. Many of the countries are poor. The US primary issue for them is demand for stronger patent protection for pharmaceutical drugs."
The crowd/audience Linus Torvalds panders to is paid by GAFAM to go attend and dominate (speak at) LF events. They're people whose employer forces them to use slop, it's inorganic.
"Before the announcement, former Microsoft employees publicly described staff being placed on performance improvement plans or offered “voluntary” exits."
