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A recent study found that patents per capita was the most important factor in determining the gap between the haves and have nots in a nation.

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/31/309483/patents-...

What's poorly thought out about this pledge is that a shop of far less than 25 people could easily clones of web and mobile apps at scale.

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I think it's implied that the companies making this pledge will tend to be the huge corporations with massive brand recognition and existing user bases that ought to be able to dominate the market unless the 25 person shop has found a way of significantly improving the product offering. In which case most of us would prefer to see acquisitions over litigation.

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