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As an employee you shouldn't care, but if you're someone who wants technological progress to continue, you should care whether companies with a slush fund of billions are able to bully those with less money.

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Massimo did not appear to respond to Apple by trying to compete on compensation with them. The levels.fyi data is showing that they appear to pay their engineers between 140-180 while they are making hundreds of millions in profit.

It seems like Masimo wasn’t bullied because they had less money. They decided to run to the government to protect them instead of doing actual competition

You mean like the innovation that someone else here said that was denied a patent in Japan because of prior art?

We like software patents now?

I skimmed this and it doesn't look like a software patent to me. It's a giant long description of the hardware.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912502B2/

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