Lots of innovation in tech happened despite patents because of ideologues like Stallman and the gpl/open source movement which left lots of software which could

Lots of innovation in tech happened despite patents because of ideologues like Stallman and the gpl/open source movement which left lots of software which could be used to disrupt monopoly. Not because it moves fast. If people were playing that game companies like Google would not exist or at least be much much slower in growth and what they have been able to accomplish.