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Why Twitter’s Confidential S-1 Filing Is A Good Thing

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Of course you did – it’s all the mainstream media could seem to write about last week after the now infamous twitter tweet about it. Did you know Twitter is going public? We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

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As I’ve written before, software patents amount to an innovation tax, transferring wealth from people who build things and make stuff to investment bankers, hedge funders, and, most of all, patent prosecutors and litigators. As others have written about, the Supreme Court has become a rubber stamp on public opinion and on Congress.

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