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Story: EU to throw patents in with the bath water

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What politicians fail to understand time and time again is that if they play the technical market game by rules lobbied together by that same technical market there'll be hell to pay later on. And it won't be the biggest lobbying voices from within the technical market that will be paying because they've already demonstrated to be able to play that game very well.

Try to fit this into your brain: commercially motivated lobbying is done to make things happen their way (e.g.: securing their current profit margins and if possible increasing them). Oh my, what an eye opener no-one could have seen coming that was.

Now, what is a sure way to ensure a very good profit margin? Kill the competition in whatever way possible perhaps? And turn that into law as well because politicians (law makers) are without a doubt the most slowly moving bunch of them all to fix bad things happening within the technical industry.

Probably within months we'll see the first "oops, that wasn't suppose to happen" statements coming from various politicians. Perhaps inspiring them to initiate repair laws that'll take years to come in effect (frustrated at each step of the way by those same lobbying forces that started the whole mess in the first place) and most likely filled with compromises from top to bottom by that time.

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