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You are also right. I was responding to this. (Italics mine) > Like, if the government (or anybody, really) wants an invention to be open, The government lite
by hodgesrm 3y ago
You are also right. I was responding to this. (Italics mine)
> Like, if the government (or anybody, really) wants an invention to be open,
The government literally does want inventions to be open. It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the constitution. [0]
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To promote the Progress of Science and
useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the
exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C8-1/ALDE_00013060/ https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C8-1/...