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Re:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end pa... by jamesaguilar on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @07:15PM (#4666835)
On the third hand, extreme examples might not be relevant to a more minor tweak of profits like suing or not suing over one-click. If it's a matter of degrees, degrees matter.
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Re:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end pa... by Retric on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @07:36PM (#4666886)
True, enough. There are plenty of company's like IBM where giving up patent revenue without changes to the patent system would heavily impact there profits. However, IBM has donated a fair number of patents in the past.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/technology/11soft.html

Along massive quantities of data. http://depth-first.com/articles/2011/12/15/ibm-donates-large...

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