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On Mer, 2005-12-07 at 13:44 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > But they can fix that in a trivial way by setting up a separate company, > "FSF patent management" or some such? You sell the patent and all rights to an offshore company that does no other work. They then sue you for violating the patent because you "accidentally" forgot to keep your own rights, you settle and pay them back the same amount of money they paid you, you claim tax breaks on the resulting loss. Just spinning off a company in the modern day world is so tax inefficient. Alan - - The fundamental problem with western capitalist states is the peculiar way they differentiate between "bribes" and "lobbying" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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