Patent troll on the verge of winning 1% of iPhone revenue

Re:Patent troll on the verge of winning 1% of iPhone revenue by nitrogen on Saturday June 07, 2014 @08:00PM (#7863511)

The human race would save so much time, money, and energy if it tackled problems at their root instead of dossing around in the details, oblivious to the actual issue.

Nobody's oblivious to the actual issue; it's just that the root of the problem is inaccessibly mired in a tangled web of lobbying networks, conflicting interests, and impenetrable committees.

Opportunists are just as guilty of making the world worse as the laws that enable them.

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Re:Patent troll on the verge of winning 1% of iPhone revenue by lorddoig on Saturday June 07, 2014 @08:13PM (#7863542)

Nonsense.

Opportunists are faced with the decision "Should I attempt to make a bucketload of cash, and secure my family's - and my stakeholders families' - future, or should I take a moral stance, make no money, and console myself in poverty because I'm a 'good' person?"

Contrarily, lawmakers have all of the tools required to make a better system, and yet choose not to, for the same indecipherable reasons so many political decisions are made.

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Re:Patent troll on the verge of winning 1% of iPhone revenue by yohui on Sunday June 08, 2014 @12:43AM (#7863994)

They could have chosen other ways to make a living. Patent trolling is hardly a blue collar enterprise.

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