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You might like this:
http://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/the-very-model-of-an-amateur-grammarian/
(note: definite hazard of developing a temporary Gilbert and Sullivan earworm . . .)
There should, however, be a "they're" and a "their". 
steal shit and then project your guilt on the person you stole from
Totally Republican. Totally occult. Totally skeevy.
'Samsung and Apple lawyers bored, agree starting shit with one another justifies salaries'.
While talent should have it's rewards, humanity is not well served by an over-concern with intellectual property.
The patent system was, in it's design, meant to be a balance between protection of rights and the sharing of useful information for the purposes of further innovation.
The further innovation part seems to have been dismissed or forgotten in favor of the profit factor.
A terrific movie, "Remix", by Lawrence Lessig discusses the concept of derivative creations in a fun way.
It's also a book: http://remix.lessig.org/
Another great Lessig book is free to download, "Free Culture": http://www.free-culture.cc/
And, good news in California, Governor Brown signed into law on September 27:
October 1, 2012 By Mike Palmedo
On September 27, California Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills into law to provide open access textbooks to students in the University of California university system. SB 1052, establishes the California Open Education Resources Council, which will guide the development of textbooks for fifty core college courses. The second bill, SB 1053, creates the California Digital Open Source Library where the free texts will be housed. The textbooks will be available for free online under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Students wishing to buy hard copies will be able to do so for around $20.
The bills were introduced by State Senator Darrell Steinberg, and passed the legislature with little opposition. In a statement, Sen. Steinberg said: “The current cost of traditional textbooks is so high, some college students are forced to struggle through a required class without the textbook, forced to drop classes or sometimes even drop out of college altogether. There’s absolutely no reason a basic biology, statistics or accounting textbook, for example, should cost $200. The Governor has shown great vision in signing this legislation as a way to help tens of thousands of students and families with the increasing expenses of higher education. Any avenue towards reducing those costs opens more doors for our students, and that in turn continues development of the educated workforce we need to fuel California’s economic engine.”
Timothy Vollmer, TITLE of Creative Commons said in a blog that “This is a massive win for California, and a most welcome example of open policy that aims to leverage open licensing to save money for California families and support the needs of teachers and students. We’ll continue to track this initiative and other Open Education Policies at our OER registry.”
Good examples.
I have two (or more if you include design patents) patents made by my former employer who never credited me on the patent as he should have, but I did at least take home a prototype and force him to a 5% agreement should it become successful, and it did!
Much as I'd love to have my name on the patents, there's no way I'm going to spend the money on lawyers to fight it.
On another invention that I developed in the 90's, after leaving that firm, I decided to keep it a trade secret because I saw the writing on the wall with NAFTA and globalism and I ended my business because I didn't want to compete with the knockoffs that I knew would come.
BTW, I found the link to the movie I couldn't find in my early reply to you for the movie called RIP: A Remix Manifesto (more about copyright than patents).
http://ripremix.com/downloads/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiP!:_A_Remix_Manifesto
I hope you can find the time to download and enjoy it.
