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The patent system is an insanity in the 18th and the 19th century as it is now. You have the same old problem of dubious rent-seeking by entrepreneurs who shou
by kiba 15y ago
The patent system is an insanity in the 18th and the 19th century as it is now. You have the same old problem of dubious rent-seeking by entrepreneurs who should be focusing their energy on spreading their inventions, not restricting it.
The problem with the patent system is our failure to understand history, our tendency to focus on the present, and our tendency to repeat the same thing in the hope that it will works.
- Cushman 15y agoI think you can simplify that further: If you look at history, change which is not backwards is always good. There are fluctuations up and down, but the trend has always been for the better. And yet at every point in history, most believed that change would be bad-- in fact, maybe we need to move backwards a little.
- endlessvoid94 15y agoI understand what you're saying. But what about people who have always believed change would be bad, and then been proven right on many occasions? We don't hear too much about people who predicted a negative outcome and when it came about, received just as much attention.