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1. Big companies should be less well protected, or there may be a monopoly. Intel is innovative, but it has to tolerate AMD using its instruction set. Big companies is much more dangerous than small ones, you don't want them to dominate your life.

2. Apple may be innovative, but it should try and be more innovative. The patent system is to encourage people to innovate more, by protecting their innovation. The protection is the means, not the ends. If Apple cannot innovate any more, why protect it? It's not like Apple will die tomorrow if not protected.



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