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Except that it is used now to drive companies out of business. I honestly think that it has done more damage than benefit. IMO If the funds used to prevent peo
by t0suj4 5y ago
Except that it is used now to drive companies out of business. I honestly think that it has done more damage than benefit.
IMO If the funds used to prevent people from applying technology would be used to fund research instead, the gains would net at least zero.
Right now the benefits are localized to jurisdictions that don't care about IP. It is impossible to measure how much could have been gained from businesses that never existed due to uncertainty arising in the jungle of IPs.
- bsder 5y ago> I honestly think that it has done more damage than benefit. Then you will wind up with the Chitu/Chitubox issue where everybody puts encryption chips into their stuff to lock it down. Moving everything to the cloud wasn't just about developer convenience. It had the side benefit for companies that their software couldn't be pirated anymore.