“A couple decades ago, Bill Gates seemed to have some appreciation of the damage wrought by patent law.  Yet over the years Microsoft relied on the other major form of intellectual property—copyright—to dominate aspects of the software industry, and then to use the monopoly profits to accumulate thousands of patents. These two forms of IP are then used together to squelch competition. Now that Gates has used state-granted IP monopolies to acquire billions of dollars that he can then use to be a bigshot philanthropist, he is all for patents (as my friend Rob Wicks says, Gates is ‘America’s wealthiest welfare queen’).”

http://c4sif.org/2013/07/bill-gates-flip-flopping-ip-hypocrite/

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