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> There has to be some reasonable line between incentivizing investment and "everyone had a right to everyone else's ideas". You're meant to pick two extreme p
by andybak 8y ago
> There has to be some reasonable line between incentivizing investment and "everyone had a right to everyone else's ideas".
You're meant to pick two extreme positions and imply the reasonable compromise is midway between them.
Instead you chose one extreme and one reasonable sounding position.
- kaffeemitsahne 8y agoHonestly not sure if you mean the first or second is the reasonable one.
- ben_w 8y agoSpeaking for myself, everyone does have a right to everyone else's ideas, even in patent systems. Patents are supposed to be a temporary monopoly to encourage investment, but quite a lot of investment happens anyway even when patents are not bothered with. Not all, certainly, and I cannot quantify how much as a fraction. However, I can give the anecdote of a former friend who worked in audio needing to get a patent on something (encryption I think) to get industry certification for their products. Their patent was modified by the lawyers from something novel to something which already existed, but the patent was granted anyway and nobody really cared because the patent was only applied for to get the certification.