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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

"imagine if email had been patented — how much money would the patent holder […] have earned?"https://t.co/NXy8mM5ZIw

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

"If email had been patented — which happily it was not — then we would have suffered two decades of stagnation..."

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

"create your own captive society and force it to use your products where, [...] prices can remain artificially high" https://t.co/D2XbmZ43bX

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

"Most scarily for classic businesses, there is a single, increasingly level playing field." https://t.co/Tg5xr5KM8Y

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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"It occurs when a group of creative people agrees to allow each other to reuse ("remix") their work" https://t.co/f1tsZwSZ1B

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

"sharing agreements cannot survive when the economic incentive to cheat is higher than the incentive to share." https://t.co/BCnI9bRJrI

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