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Odd. I always thought it was litigation.
by mcknz 16y ago
Odd. I always thought it was litigation.
- brazzy 16y agoWell, you thought wrong. Patents were intended (and, for the longest time, worked quite well) as a trade between inventors and society: the inventor gets a legal 20 year monopoly on using his invention, and the rest of the world learns how exactly it works so that they can use it freely afterwards.
- mcknz 16y agosorry, forgot the sarcasm tags.