This is dumb. Who cares if they have trade secrets? I can invent things myself. The concept of ideas being scarce is something believed only by professional tal

This is dumb. Who cares if they have trade secrets? I can invent things myself. The concept of ideas being scarce is something believed only by professional talkers who have never created anything. What's truly evil is if I invent something and then I am robbed by a corporation who was able to spend millions to push some over-broad patent through the system. Nobody here believes you when you pretend that innovation is scarce.