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They want to earn money, nothing more. No knowledge is gained, no wisdom is earned here. Just plain old money interests at work. Some call it capitalism, i call
by quakeguy 10y ago
They want to earn money, nothing more. No knowledge is gained, no wisdom is earned here. Just plain old money interests at work.
Some call it capitalism, i call it greed.
- SolarNet 10y agoActually it's called rent-seeking and many capitalists would also call it bad (namely stemming from the failures of the patent system).
- monochromatic 10y agoIf they're buying up patents, they're enriching the people who are making these inventions.
- Turing_Machine 10y agoSuch organizations free up people like Jennifer Doudna to spend time in their labs (i.e., their area of expertise) rather than spending time sitting in meetings with lawyers and similar krill from companies that want to license the technology. How is that not a valuable service?