If you don't involve the legal system, there is _no_ provision against rip-offs. So yes, you can be anti-patent and anti-ripoff, but it's a rather incoherent wo

If you don't involve the legal system, there is _no_ provision against rip-offs. So yes, you can be anti-patent and anti-ripoff, but it's a rather incoherent world view. (Unless you assume humans are innately good and can be persuaded to do the right thing without external force. In that case, I wish you luck, but I'm in too cynical a mood to follow that argument)