So there's a tweet I've seen where some anti-vaxxer is asking if anyone else has noticed why all these unvaccinated people are suddenly getting Covid like there

So there's a tweet I've seen where some anti-vaxxer is asking if anyone else has noticed why all these unvaccinated people are suddenly getting Covid like there's some sort of conspiracy. Sadly it'll probably be taken as "confirmation" of nanobots or something. Of course, this all just misses the point entirely. I have the same feeling about this. It's not that piracy increases innovation. It's that overly restrictive limits stifle innovation and this includes the ridiculous software patent fiasco. It's not really surprising that the Patent Office didn't discover that patents in general and software patents in particular are in fact the problem. There's tons of evidence of this too. The Wright brothers' original patent on flight control completely stifled the aviation industry such that when the US entered World War One they were unable to build planes and they had to buy them other nations. This particular event is why there's a patent pool for aviation now. A smartphone is literally covered by thousands of software patents for completely obvious "innovations". Commercial software tends to have a lot of restrictions such that only paying customers can (legally) use it. Sellers would rather not have someone use it and view them as a potential future sale than risk giving it away for a low or zero price. Many of those people using that software would probably lead to innovation. The lesson here should be that overly restrictive IP enforcement in general is the problem.