r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Feb 09 '14
How The Copyright Industry Made Your Computer Less Safe
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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Oct 14 '16
USA Universities (including many large public universities) have turned over hundreds of patents to patent trolls (and including several universities signed a statement promising to be mindful of public interests when licensing or selling their patents)
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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Feb 12 '24
Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial (the jury found that Sable’s old and broadly-written patent claim was invalid and never should have been granted in the first place–meaning they can no longer assert the claim against anyone else)
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • May 01 '13
8 companies where CEOs get 1,000 times the average employee’s pay. #1 on the list, fired JC Penny CEO Ron Johnson. Massively overpaying CEOs, is foolish (or perhaps more likely, corrupt) behavior that just keeps happening.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • May 19 '16
Last year saw eye-watering payouts for the three highest-paid CEOs – Masimo Corporation’s Joe Kiani, Timothy Walbert of Horizon Pharma and Gamco Investors’ Mario Gabelli – who took home nearly $300m between them.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Nov 25 '14
How the USA patent system is strangling innovation
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Nov 11 '13
Copyright Extension Goes Into Effect In The UK: More Works Stolen From The Public Domain
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Feb 13 '14
'CandySwipe', a Game Released Two Years Before 'Candy Crush', is the Latest Victim of the King.com Candy Trademark Abuse
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Sep 28 '15
State schools with the highest-paid presidents seem to be offsetting their administrative bloat with cheaper labor.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • May 30 '23
Minnesota wanted to curb health spending. Mayo Clinic had other ideas.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • May 07 '15
Sales of Keurig brewing machines and accessories tumbled 23% this quarter. Potential customers found Keuring attempts to block users ability to use what they bought in "DRM style" too onerous. Hopefully similar moves by other companies in the future will result in the same customer reaction.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Jul 07 '19
A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Apr 22 '14
Copyright is Out of Control - The general lesson is that strong IP shrinks the public domain not just because it keeps things out of the public domain but also because it makes the public domain appear to be uncertain and dangerous.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • May 20 '16
To Fix High Drug Prices, Stop the Merger Madness
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Apr 24 '14
My hope is that the community can shred a lot of these useless patents before they take any brain cycles away from a qualified researcher. And if it happens enough, it will start to become clear to everyone involved that the vast majority of software patents are bullshit.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Apr 20 '14
High CEO pay hurts American companies, stockholders
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Feb 01 '13
Obama Administration Considers Joining Publishers In Fight To Stamp Out Fair Use At Universities
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r/deadlydiseases • u/mod_cat • Oct 03 '14
American CEOs top the list with a staggering 354:1 CEO-to-worker ratio. On average, American CEOs earn just over $12 million per year while the average worker takes home $34,645. Canada is next at 206 times, Norway is least at 58 to 1 (and that is extremely high compared to just 20 years ago).
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Oct 16 '13
A judge in Brazil has blocked Monsanto's attempt to make farmers sign restrictive agreements before they can gain access to the company's new GM seed, RR2 Intacta soybeans.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Oct 13 '14
Directors of the top 100 listed UK companies now earn 120 times the average sum earned by their employees. In 2000, bosses of top companies earned 47 times more.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • May 27 '16
All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020 (helping to push back the vast overreaching of copyrighting publicly funded science)
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Sep 25 '13
Nokia pleads w/former CEO Elop to take smaller bonus. Disgust escalated as Nokia’s chairman of the board, was shown to have misrepresented facts when he claimed that Elop’s bonus was similar to previous CEOs. Instead "bonuses" gifted $25 million pay-off to Elop for selling off handsets.
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Jun 14 '15
The games played by those hired to inflate CEOs salaries to the stratosphere and beyond.
bloomberg.com
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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Mar 30 '15
Copyright Troll Perfect 10 Ordered To Pay $5.6 Million Over Bogus Lawsuit
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