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title: >
  First-come First-served Intellectual Property
date: 2004-07-30 03:12
status: published
description: >
  More proof, if proof were needed, that the plane of existence we like to call the universe, is categorically bonkers


links:
  - url: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/29/2225246
    title: >
      Microsoft Wants more Credit for Inventions (Slashdot)
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How can there be no prior art for <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/29/2225246" title="Microsoft Wants More Credit for Inventions (Slashdot)">this</a>?! I'm not surprised no-one bothered patenting it.
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