I think companies would cooperate more with each other and with developers if patent law wasn't creating incentives to do the opposite. Cooperation would happe

I think companies would cooperate more with each other and with developers if patent law wasn't creating incentives to do the opposite. Cooperation would happen a lot more if cooperation were mutually beneficial instead of just benefitting the patent holder. The creation of web was really a fluke, but the sort of thing that would be happening all the time if patents weren't discouraging them.