{"id":1688,"date":"2011-11-18T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T22:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2011-11-20T02:46:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T08:46:36","slug":"bn-pummels-microsoft-patent-claims-with-prior-art-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
\nTo call upon a neighbour and to say: —
\n“We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight,
\nUnless you pay us cash to go away.”<\/p>\n

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
\nAnd the people who ask it explain
\nThat you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
\nAnd then you’ll get rid of the Dane!<\/p>\n

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
\nTo puff and look important and to say: —
\n“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
\nWe will therefore pay you cash to go away.”<\/p>\n

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
\nBut we’ve proved it again and again,
\nThat if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
\nYou never get rid of the Dane.<\/p>\n

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
\nFor fear they should succumb and go astray;
\nSo when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
\nYou will find it better policy to say: —<\/p>\n

“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
\nNo matter how trifling the cost;
\nFor the end of that game is oppression and shame,
\nAnd the nation that pays it is lost!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n

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Above Kipling quote came from a comment posted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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