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That's why the future, sadly, probably won't happen in the US: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?s=gongkai http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?s=gongkai
by nitrogen 10y ago
That's why the future, sadly, probably won't happen in the US: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?s=gongkai http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?s=gongkai
- digi_owl 10y agoThe irony being that US industry bootstrapped in much the same way. Because it basically gave the middle finger to UK patents and copyright. Looking across history the pattern seems to be that the nation rise the fastest when they ignore copyright and patents, and then stagnates as those concepts take hold and choke the economy with legalese. For example Germany (thought not the nation we know it today) introduced the concept later than its neighbors in Europe, and this may have helped in their industrialization as science and engineering texts etc were cheap and easy to acquire.
- egh5oon 10y agoIntellectual "property" is a form of turf war, and the same pattern applies. First the "pioneering" phase, aka land grabbing, then the walled gardens.