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This is proof of the utter emptiness of the fiction of intellectual "property" as a source of innovation. IP is not a source of anything but overhead. You pay a

This is proof of the utter emptiness of the fiction of intellectual "property" as a source of innovation. IP is not a source of anything but overhead. You pay a baseline of insurance (or "protection" depending on your POV) to fend off lawsuits just to be able to do your work. It's rent-seeking, but the genius is, it's not rent-seeking over limited resources like land or resource rights, it's rent-seeking over totally artificial unlimited source of nonsense BS that you can never run out of. It's just a tax on existence, but it's not going into anything useful, just into the IP industry's pockets.

threeseed 10y ago
This is simply not true. IP is a vital and important part of business that protects entrepreneurs the most. Sure there is a huge raft of reforms that need to be untaken and software patents have questionable utility but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I still look back to the Dyson lawsuit with Hoover as example of why we need patents and IP protection: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1368860/Dyson-cleans-up-in-patent-battle-with-rival-Hoover.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1368860/Dyson-cleans-...
- jacquesm 10y ago
  I see some minor differences between Vacuum cleaners and software.
  - andrewflnr 10y ago
    Indeed, but the comment to which GP was responding made no such distinction.
- michaelmrose 10y ago
  Services, reputation, implementation are all worth something your ideas are not.
- michaelmrose 10y ago
  It's significance stems mainly from its ability to enable those who are intellectually unable to create anything of value to at least own the fruits of the productive classes labor
unlmtd 10y ago
Exactly. People who believe in IP make those who thought the earth was flat look like geniuses. Strip the license out, use the code as you please. If anyone sues, we crowd-fund hitmen to take care of the fascist slimes. The IP fallacy is intrinsically linked to the State fallacy. Look fellas; if all men are born with equal rights, then how do you fit the 'ruling class' into it? If anyone claims to own you or the ideas which are happening to you, slay him.
- ue_ 10y ago
  I'm not sure if I agree with the idea of killing anyone who tries to exert a claim over oneself, though I can't agree more: abolish the state, the class system and IP.

threeseed 10y ago

This is simply not true. IP is a vital and important part of business that protects entrepreneurs the most. Sure there is a huge raft of reforms that need to be untaken and software patents have questionable utility but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I still look back to the Dyson lawsuit with Hoover as example of why we need patents and IP protection: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1368860/Dyson-cleans-up-in-patent-battle-with-rival-Hoover.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1368860/Dyson-cleans-...

jacquesm 10y ago
I see some minor differences between Vacuum cleaners and software.
- andrewflnr 10y ago
  Indeed, but the comment to which GP was responding made no such distinction.
michaelmrose 10y ago
Services, reputation, implementation are all worth something your ideas are not.
michaelmrose 10y ago
It's significance stems mainly from its ability to enable those who are intellectually unable to create anything of value to at least own the fruits of the productive classes labor

unlmtd 10y ago

Exactly. People who believe in IP make those who thought the earth was flat look like geniuses. Strip the license out, use the code as you please. If anyone sues, we crowd-fund hitmen to take care of the fascist slimes. The IP fallacy is intrinsically linked to the State fallacy. Look fellas; if all men are born with equal rights, then how do you fit the 'ruling class' into it? If anyone claims to own you or the ideas which are happening to you, slay him.

ue_ 10y ago
I'm not sure if I agree with the idea of killing anyone who tries to exert a claim over oneself, though I can't agree more: abolish the state, the class system and IP.