Actually, a lot of nice discoveries started with someone who had to get around a patent. But yes, the free market involves waste - just not anything like as muc

Actually, a lot of nice discoveries started with someone who had to get around a patent. But yes, the free market involves waste - just not anything like as much waste as either not encouraging innovation, or keeping everything as trade secrets that can create monopolies for centuries (see the history of the forceps) resulting in uncounted deaths - plus trade secrets can be lost. Open source wasn't originally about creating waste and duplication. Let's not do that; since the bonus of encouraging innovation with financial reward doesn't happen, just the waste.