"Now we have a good a idea of what it would be like to have the government run the computer industry, " said Jonathan Zuck of the Association for Competitive Technology, which represents software and hardware companies.

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This is not just a good thing it is precisely and exactly what we would like to happen.

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Before we even managed to download the app, we had a pretty good idea in our heads as to what it would look like: lately Google has been favoring a minimalist user interface across the board, which means Android and iOS users should be able to find their way around Google services without experiencing the hazards of a learning curve.

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It had to be a good Festival otherwise people would have forgotten what it was like, and it was.

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Nothing has even made it out of committee yet, so the actual passage of a patent reform bill still seems quite far off, but there is definite talk going on in Washington as to what patent reform would look like, and there seems to be enough common ground for some good to come of it.

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