> I sometimes wonder what the consequences would be of stipulating that patents had to be uniformly licensed to all interested parties without exception.
Isn't this the definition of FRAND which nearly the entire interview with the lawyer from the article is about?
Yes but I wonder what the result of applying something substantially similar to that to the entire patent system without exception might be. Also I had in mind "uniform" in addition to "reasonable", ie holders would be permitted only a single set of license terms at a single rate with zero difference regardless of size, volume, etc. Maybe being permitted to change the terms on offer at the end of every 5 year period or so. Or something vaguely like that anyway.
It's really just a thought experiment about how you might kill patent trolls as well as the asymmetric advantages that large corporations enjoy while still maintaining the spirit of funding the R&D done by participants of all sizes.
>if it was a jobs program, it would be way better staffed..
You're saying it's not comparable to the size of the New Deal, the biggest jobs program ever in the US.
That doesn't disqualify it from consideration as a jobs program as there are many jobs programs much smaller.
Adding 60k to ~3 million is significant because it's permanent. These are low skilled workers (and security theater as you astutely say) mostly concentrated in large cities.
Whereas the New Deal was temp jobs that disappeared once grants and funding disappeared.
> At a March 3 hearing in Austin, a National Labor Relations Board attorney said the fired software engineer, Denise Unterwurzacher, had been acting in the spirit of Atlassian’s own stated “Open Company, No Bullshit” philosophy
I think if you have a "Open Company, No Bullshit" philosophy in your company handbook, then you can't claim "No, not like that..." when called on your BS.
If their company policy was "always obey legal orders from superiors" instead then I think they have a much clearer case at firing for cause.
From what I can tell, if no rule is enforced, about 2-5% of people think it's totally normal to scroll tiktok or instagram at full volume in public.
So on a crowded bus you've normally got 1 or 2. Behavior is actually much better on airplanes, usually (maybe 1-2 in ~150 passenger plane), and I have never seen someone who did not silence their phone after being asked politely by the attendant.
Houston has a very high density of delicious food. The traffic is horrible but if there was a big investment into public transit, I think it would be a very nice place to live.
Tracking solar time would mean it's equivalently light out at 5AM and at 7PM. Nearly noone is awake at 5AM. Nearly everyone is awake at 7PM. You can wave your arms around and say "well then why don't people wake up earlier", but they have jobs and stuff. The "scientific evidence" for standard time is flimsy.
People did wake up at way earlier. Working hours have shifted past by a few hours during the last century, so it seems like people actually prefer that.
I was looking, thank you!
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