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we get the technology

• seamyb88 7y ago
  Which would be completely impossible to obtain without giving the profits to the rich. It wasn't science or engineering that built the modern world, it was privatisation. (end of sarcasm)We won't get the technology we want, we will get the technology Google wants us to have. We will get decades of fighting Google over their abuse of the technology. We will get an Edward Snowden releasing files to show how Google allowed Governments to spy on their own people, with the technology. Or just live in your bubble, whatever.
• emsy 7y ago
  Oh yeah behind patents and embedded in corporate secrecy that is almost guaranteed to be irrecoverable once the people that created the technology leave or die. I don’t think cooperations are bad and they should be reimbursed for their expenses, but our current way of handling these things leaves a lot of room for improvement if our goal is to advance the cooperative future of humanity (which it should be).
  • 627467 7y ago
    The point of patents is to incentivize disclosure of knowledge in exchange for limited protection. I personally think that public institutions funding research that leads to patents should share benefits of said patents. I believe most operators of those public funds (ie. Universities) actually benefit from this most of the time. At least in major public European universities
    • atq2119 7y ago
      Unfortunately, patents don't really do that in practice. For example, it is typical for engineers to be advised not to read any patents at all. Plus, most patents are written in a style that's pretty much opposite to how you'd write if the goal was dissemination of knowledge.
• rapsey 7y ago
  And the jobs and all that comes with a growing economy.