Both of them?

Is that really too much to ask?

Well that was damned classy. My toque is off to you, yankee.

Even just putting up a standard ad landing page would generate income, there.

We'll see if ICANN just brings down the hammer for powerful corporations here.

Commercial users are being expected to pay extraordinarily low commercial rates. Someone call the Wambulance.

If they were providing 8 as a free update, you might have a point, but who is really going to be shelling out $100 for it?

And no one bought that any more than they'll be buying 8.

And they want you to be buying their $10,000 router, not a $100 Linksys one. They're artificially degraded.

If they were successfully attacked then their both incompetent and insecure.

Then I've got a fully alive not dead elephant to sell you.

Your tears are delicious.

They're probably not in the office.

The central problem with the current system is that it forces the people actually making things to defend themselves from entrenched interests. We need to redirect that fight so patent holders settle it amongst themselves rather than the wider public.

Set a patent tax at the point of final sale, and have patent holders lodge their claims against products as they come to market. Patent holders themselves will then have the burden of fighting off frivolous patents without troubling the organization actually producing things. The general public will have a direct view into the drag the patent system has on the economy, and will have to be persuaded to accept it. Non-commercial activity won't be impacted, because any percent of zero is still zero.

This wouldn't provide extra or faster broadband. It would be a tax on urbanites to subsidize rural broadband.

No, I would not want to see that. Let Farmer Joe pay his fair share.

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