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   mdn (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 11:58:25 JST mdn
   >be Japanese salary man
   >work on creating blue led
   >boss tells him to stop for months
   >ignores
   >get threatened by boss
   >finally make the first blue led
   >international recognition
   >billions pours in the company
   >salary man get a 170$ bonus for his work
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:31:15 JST 翠星石

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     • Hyperhidrosis :verified:
     @Hyperhidrosis If he had developed it in private, he'd likely had fared even worse, as companies are lined up ready to pull out their patents and threaten to sue for patent infringement. As a result, he couldn't get blue LEDs manufactured unless he was to cross licensed with those companies (meaning the gets a useless document full of fluff and the business gets a nice blue LED design) and the big business could then proceed to sell blue LEDs, leaving him without a hope to compete.
     
     If governments were actually interested in serving their citizens, they would admit that every single patent in the last 50 years is completely invalid and refuse to enforce or grant any more, but governments are only interested in serving businesses.
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     Hyperhidrosis :verified: (hyperhidrosis@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:31:16 JST Hyperhidrosis :verified:

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     @mangeurdenuage should've developed it in private