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Patents are enforced by governments that have massive amounts of guns and can shut down any company that violates them. I promise you nobody in the tech indust
by natechols 5y ago
Patents are enforced by governments that have massive amounts of guns and can shut down any company that violates them. I promise you nobody in the tech industry respects patents because of any "social contract".
- lexapro 5y agoGovernments only have that power precisely because there is a social contract. Read the definition.
- ViViDboarder 5y agoNo. They also have guns. Only a very small minority of people must abide by that social contract to enforce it, and those people are likely all part of the enforcement.
- lexapro 5y agoIn a police state maybe, but I wasn't talking about that. And even in a police state you need acceptance of the people.