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"Your world would eliminate people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates."

You've got to be kidding. Do you know nothing about the history of software?

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."--Bill Gates

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"that's the great thing about internet, you can make up quotes, and attribute it to others" --abraham lincoln

so, please cite.

Please use Google instead of posting mindless sarcasm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html?_r=1

please provide citations and don't expect people to clean up after you. and still it's a hearsay, no link to memo (although internal)

"please provide citations and don't expect people to clean up after you. and still it's a hearsay, no link to memo"

Who do you think you are that you can tell people on what terms they can cite a quote from the New York Times? No, I am not going to do a scientific research paper tracing the historical roots of this oft-cited (in reputable media) quote.

Please take your head and pull it out of your ass.

you can suck my dick then

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