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Exactly. Incentives are what the patent system is all about. More on this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724264 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
by brlewis 16y ago
Exactly. Incentives are what the patent system is all about. More on this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724264 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724264
- kiba 16y agoWrong. It was the official justification when the patent system was established in the United States. People have discussed if natural rights applied to patent rights. Some argued not so, and some thought so. This has been going on since the age of enlightenment.
- brlewis 16y agoSorry, yes, I did mean the US patent system allowed by the US constitution. There are certainly valid discussions of the concept of patents outside this context.