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Fox News: You Can't Take the IP Out of iPod
Jan 12, 2005, 23 :30 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (8088 reads)

(Other stories by Jim Prendergast)

[ Thanks to Astonished for this link. ]

"'The patent system added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius,'--Abraham Lincoln, the only president to hold a patent.

"Last week in Las Vegas, over 120,000 people attended the annual Consumer Electronics Show, and if Abraham Lincoln was still alive, he would have been there too..."

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[Editor's Note: According to the story bio, "Jim Prendergast is the executive director of Americans for Technology Leadership." Founding members? No need to guess. -BKP]

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Fox publishes a article from a group fou ...   Fox fronting for Corporations again   
Paul Benjamin
Jan 12, 2005, 23:58:01
 
...painting RMS and the FOSS community a ...   Just another idiot...   
Philip Stephens
Jan 13, 2005, 00:21:16
 
Read Jim Prendergast's article. This ...   Smacks of a Drunkard's complaint   
GaAsP
Jan 13, 2005, 01:01:51
 
I was at CES - sorry, it had nothing inn ...   CES had no innovation.   
MikeFM
Jan 13, 2005, 01:47:51
 
From the website of "Americans for Techn ...   They know (some of) the words   
Jim
Jan 13, 2005, 06:19:23
 
From the "Americans For Technology Leade ...   So according the the AFL web site - DRM is bad.   
Richard Corfield
Jan 13, 2005, 07:10:24
 
...is the worst troll I've been give ...   this dude...   
Amaury Jacquot
Jan 13, 2005, 08:02:15
 
Philip,Whether you agree with the Fox co ...   Re: Just another idiot...   
M_Reed
Jan 13, 2005, 14:19:12
 
> Patents are obviously not driving forw ...   Re: CES had no innovation.   
Mark Johnson
Jan 13, 2005, 14:28:43
 
It seems that Fox rates Open Source as s ...   Open Source is evil...   
John Denver
Mar 21, 2005, 05:40:44
 
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