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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by azinman2 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:27PM (#22558494)
Too be fair, the EU also never managed to build a large scale software industry. I’m not saying this is only because of patents, but it’s not a great example to uphold.
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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:57PM (#22561071)
Someone should tell Spotify, SAP, Sage, Nokia, and ARM they're not large scale.
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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by azinman2 on Friday March 13, 2020 @02:18AM (#22565173)
Compare that to just Bay Area alone or one Alibaba and then tell me about large scale...
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