Against Monopoly
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Open Thread
Monopoly corrupts. Absolute monopoly corrupts absolutely.
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Open Thread
Since there has been a lot of discussion John suggested rather than having it all as comments to a single post, I create an open thread for general discussion. I will try to set up an open thread each Monday for whatever IP topics catch the imagination and see how it goes. So go ahead, and post away comments to this posting on whatever IP/Monopoly topics you'd like.
[Posted at 08/11/2008 04:00 PM by David K. Levine on Open Thread 
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NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public Bill Stepp writes:
Nobody Nowhere [accusation deleted]. [calls me a liar].
Look in the fucking
at 09/07/2010 07:49 PM by Nobody Nowhere
NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public Nobody Nowhere referred to Anonymous as "Anonyshit" in an earlier comment.
He also lied by saying
at 09/07/2010 06:10 PM by Bill Stepp
NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public Zachary Frederickson writes:
[insult deleted]
No. None of the nasty things that you have said or
at 09/07/2010 02:58 PM by Nobody Nowhere
NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public "I'd almost welcome the Lonnie/Nobody flamewars back in preference to this inanity."
Remind me not
at 09/07/2010 02:01 PM by Zachary Frederickson
NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public Bill attacked:
[calls me a liar]. His response to this was civil too.
Nobody Nowhere wrote on
at 09/07/2010 12:50 PM by Nobody Nowhere
Microsoft gets patent for Windows shutdown This wouild seem to fail the non-obvious test. I mean, isn't the natural thing to shut down a
at 09/07/2010 05:46 AM by Bill Stepp
NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public Absolutely not, you were, as I document below. His response to this was civil too.
Nobody
at 09/07/2010 05:24 AM by Bill Stepp
NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public Bill Stepp writes:
I note that Nobody Nowhere was [insult deleted]; [threat deleted].
None of the
at 09/06/2010 11:11 PM by Nobody Nowhere
NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public I note that Nobody Nowhere was rude in his comments to Anonymous; why he isn't banned is a
at 09/06/2010 06:29 PM by Bill Stepp
Microsoft gets patent for Windows shutdown If only Microsoft would work on patenting technology that would make Windows shut down in, say, 5
at 09/06/2010 04:33 PM by patent litigation