haha, no more of those stupid Boost Mobile commercials!

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While you're celebrating the end of an irritating advert, the idea of free markets takes one for the team.
...can patent something obvious, and then prevent someone else from doing that obvious thing.

Lets hang our heads in shame.
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That's insane.
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Re: haha, no more of those stupid Boost Mobile commercials!

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riddla wrote:http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/18/2235254&tid=187&tid=155

So long suckaz!
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Foo wrote:While you're celebrating the end of an irritating advert, the idea of free markets takes one for the team.
...can patent something obvious, and then prevent someone else from doing that obvious thing.

Lets hang our heads in shame.
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