US future industrial base: patent lawyers?

[link|http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=181504068|http://www.eetimes.c...ticleID=181504068]

I agree with the Intel lawyer.

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"The highest-margin part of our industry is the invention. We don't want to compete where there are increasingly slim margins, in manufacturing and distribution," said Brent Frei, a vice president at Intellectual Ventures (Bellevue, Wash.), a startup founded by the former chief technology officer of Microsoft Corp.

Intellectual Ventures aims to write and buy patents to create and commercialize powerful patent portfolios. "A cool set of patents in itself is an incredible product. Our founder, Nathan Myhrvold, is fond of saying IP is the next software," said Frei.

--Tony

More better: Sell Them. For a Lot.

Sounds right up a Softie's (back) alley.
And right up there with, Believing makes it So.

If I have correctly grokked Mhyrvold's peculiar neurasthenia, his social contract would be akin to the transformation of your standard herd mentality into --> a hive actuality: with Wealth concentration akin to a neutron star.
aka, Mhyrvold: a Masters degree in Inhuman Engineering.

You can only utter such Stuff - after language murder has virtually succeeded.
His phraseology is pure Redmond horseshit, akin to the brutal flaying of innovation .. which will never walk upright again, in our lifetimes.

I see mobs & torches - as the final plebiscite.
On their banners:

Die, Suit!

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