I think if followed "Love is much more than a party to pay rather than to obtain more" principle, a lot of economic contradictions are avoided.

我想如果遵循“爱得多的一方付出多而不是索取多”的原则，很多经济上的矛盾都可以避免。

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Plus, hardware is generally patented rather than copyrighted, and patents are expensive to both obtain and defend.

另外，硬件基本上都是受专利保护，而不是受版权保护的，而专利的获得和捍卫是很昂贵的。

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In other words, the patent constituted a weapon or a trophy rather than a way to obtain revenues from others' commercial adoption of their technology.

换言之，专利已经变成了一个武器或者纪念品，而不再是通过商业应用而获得收益的一种方法。

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Capital would be allocated more directly towards national economic benefit rather than to obtain tax benefits which may or may not be for the economic good as people would vote with their dollars on what is worthwhile rather than what the IRS dictated through the tax code.

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Going forward, rather than obtain permission from you to introduce possible advertising products we have not yet developed, we are going to take the time to complete our plans, and then come back to our users and explain how we would like for our advertising business to work.

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To the NRA, that attention should be putting armed guards at every school, rather than seeking to limit the ability of people to obtain weapons.

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