[OT] EU patents [was Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types]

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 16:38:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 17:05:40 UTC, Russel Winder via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 11:44 +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d 
>> wrote:
>> […]
>>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership#National_sovereignty_and_Investor_State_Dispute_Settlements_.28ISDS.29
>>> 
>>> I don't want to live on this planet anymore >_<
>>> ..yet again.
>>
>> But we have to!
>>
>> In a sense this is just the multinational corporations doing 
>> what they
>> should do create a market to maximize shareholder value. Sadly 
>> it is an
>> indirect return to a feudal system on a massive scale.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> The core problem here is that most politicians are directly or
>> indirectly reporting to these corporations as much as to the 
>> voters.
>
> I believe this is not the core problem. Core one is that people 
> in general don't care much about those issue and consider many 
> of those attempts perfectly legitimate. It is an education and 
> cultural issue in the first place. You can block few really bad 
> laws by creating enough fuss about it in media but this takes 
> quite an effort. And all they need to do is to push the very 
> same law later under different name, no risk here.
>
> What is even more frustrating the very same people will feel 
> freaking smart by calling you paranoid and pretending that are 
> reasonable pragmatical persons and you are some tin foil hat 
> geek. It is not just the corporations we need to fight but 
> established mass attituded successfully endorsed by those 
> corporations. And _this_ really sucks.

True, true. Most people don't realize / care about how all this 
stuff affects them. In fact, your average iPhone user will be 
quite happy with the corporate prison, as long as they can watch 
the latest shit on youtube.