>it should take some time for the big guy to figure out how to implement it Not when big company has as many people as big company wants to work on the problem

>it should take some time for the big guy to figure out how to implement it Not when big company has as many people as big company wants to work on the problem. >If a small guy invented the "one click buying" button, should it be protected? No, of course not. IP does need to be fixed, I said that. >Plus, in the end, we all win (if big company popularizes small guy's idea and it makes something better). No we don't. Most of us may get a slightly better version of something we want, but we would have anyway. And we will have stricken a blow to ones ability to become better off than we started out. Personally I'm for a world where as many people as possible can become financially independent. I utterly despise anything that means that "wage slaves" have to remain such and big companies get even more powerful. $1 million would change the lives of many people on this site but google/apple/MS wouldn't even notice such a relatively small amount.