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And don't think for a minute that the first human company that gets that tech wouldn't do the exact same thing. Wilbur and Orville Wright did precisely that fo
by crankylinuxuser 8y ago
And don't think for a minute that the first human company that gets that tech wouldn't do the exact same thing.
Wilbur and Orville Wright did precisely that for flight until the US govt dismissed the patents due to WWI. The patents, and their insane lawsuits, were poisoning the whole US on flight. Europe grew by leaps and bounds, and had all sorts of aircraft.
- throwawaykf05 8y agoThis story is oft-repeated here but this paper provides convincing historical industrial evidence that it's a myth: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2355673 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2355673