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What a nightmare. The patent system is enormously harmful to the world and should be done away with.
by silexia 6y ago
What a nightmare. The patent system is enormously harmful to the world and should be done away with.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoDepends on whether you think people would work nights and weekends to get an idea out the door if someone with more money can immediately copy and profit. History says no, but maybe there is a different system.
- rightbyte 6y agoHow many sucessful patents are from freestanding inventors nowadays actually? The main in-action of patent I have seen is patents being hoarded in big corporations. If the engineers work nights and weekends at those it is their own fault.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThey are rewarded with salaries that have never before existed outside of law/business/rent seeking (kings/land owners/etc.), the main power brokers of wealth in most of human history.
- jacquesm 6y agoThey're called Intellectual Vultures in some circles...