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The question is what good do the patents provide? Apple would still have released the iphone. Patents & Intellectual property are an anathema to a free societ
by dantheman 16y ago
The question is what good do the patents provide? Apple would still have released the iphone.
Patents & Intellectual property are an anathema to a free society. Though they do allow entrenched interests protect their market from upstarts.
- YooLi 16y agoFirst you say "Apple would still have released the iphone" and then "...they [patents] do allow entrenched interests protect their market from upstarts." You seem to be contradicting yourself. When Apple released the iPhone, they were the upstart in the mobile phone segment. The patents are what allowed/allows Apple to protect themselves from the 'entrenched interests' of the market. That is what good the patents provide.
- dantheman 16y agoNot at all, by upstart i mean small companies without massive legal departments and lobbying dollars.