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There's a big difference between legal and ethical. And it's not creating liquidity in the market for inventions. It's creating liquidity in state-sanctioned a
by rhinoceraptor 7y ago
There's a big difference between legal and ethical.
And it's not creating liquidity in the market for inventions. It's creating liquidity in state-sanctioned and enforced monopoly rights of inventions.
- egdod 7y agoWithout that monopoly, there wouldn’t be much of a market for inventions.
- ric2b 7y agoOf course there would, there's a lot of money to be made from inventing something, even without a patent. And the biggest companies in the world aren't the biggest because they have patent protected monopolies.