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New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Certainly it could be, I would like to see some proper study done into it, but it's probably borderline impossible.
Conversely patents are somewhat unobtainable by the average Joe, I think I saw it costing somewhere in the region of 25-50k to patent something by the time you factor in the cost of a decent patent lawyer.
Maybe a 10-15 year patent period with lower barrier to entry would be a good thing.