It makes money by selling detailed reports (the basic ones are free), licensing its name to hospitals that do well and offering consulting services to ones that do poorly.

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The supply and qualification of doctors is restricted by governmentally enforced licensing requirements, not by a free market.

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The leaders of a recipient country may know that they should free up trade, facilitate new business formation, streamline licensing procedures, and improve protection of private property.

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As Android is free, and the current number 2, iOS, is not even available for licensing, any of the Android makers who launches product on other platforms migrates to a tiny system which has under 4% sales, and for any new platform, even less in installed base.

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As part of an exclusive licensing agreement with Media Mushroom Applications, Samsung is making Easy Phone Sync available for free for UK customers to transfer content from their iOS device to their Samsung Galaxy device in a few simple clicks.

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The key question is whether the savings in licensing fees for proprietary products outweigh the additional costs in manpower to integrate and operate the free alternative.

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The investors have free access to the portfolio, says the former executive, and anyone else will be expected to negotiate licensing fees or, presumably, face a lawsuit.

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