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Old 08-18-2010, 10:24 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by autoteach View Post
I would argue, though, that the most selfish is a company like honda that has numerous patents on snowmobile technology and they dont even make them. They are just coming up with ideas, patenting them, and stopping others from using those ideas.
This makes perfect sense to me. They are their ideas, their intellectual property. Anyone who wants to can use those ideas by paying them a royalty fee.

Most people do not give the hard-earned fruits of their labor away for free.
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