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So once again we doom the species to eternal torment for the sake of one company's profits.... This shit should just be taken by the state for the benefit of e
by DropInIn 3y ago
So once again we doom the species to eternal torment for the sake of one company's profits....
This shit should just be taken by the state for the benefit of everyone, because really it's insane not to.
- Llamamoe 3y agoWelcome to virtually all of healthcare.
- cellularmitosis 3y agoWhy doesn't the state just purchase the IP from them?
- DropInIn 3y agoWhat is the IP doing now? If it's abandoned what value does it actually have in the marketplace? Theres no real reason to reward squatting on world changing tech, is there?
- diffeomorphism 3y agoWhat is the difference? When something is "taken" they still get ample compensation.
- jaggederest 3y agoWhy purchase the IP at all? The proposed funding is for parallel reconstruction - we know it's possible, we have enough details to recreate it, it's a "simple matter of funding" at that point.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoUnfortunately, states these days rarely do anything on their own. So even if they bought or took the IP, they'd still have to lend it to some private manufacturer, who will quickly ensure the government itself ends up locked into a subscription. Either way, some private company gets fat, and society gets shafted: you'll be paying a subscription for this, whether directly to a vendor, or hidden as part of your taxes. Like usual, the problem isn't whose name is on the box. The problem is the subscription-based business model, which can easily turn into pure rent seeking.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoWhile there is some work and capital that goes in to developing the IP, it also builds up on decades of fundamental research that is funded by the public (standing on the shoulders of giants and all that). Therefore, I'd say that a big discount should be had for such a purchase.
- ImHereToVote 3y agoThe employers of politicians would never pay them to do it.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoYeah, THAT will incentivize people to come up with more stuff like this!
- ajuc 3y agoIf free market can't get this done, maybe we should just pay people from our taxes to do such research?
- DropInIn 3y agoThe IP is effectively valueless if there is no intent to monetize it. Really....
- Clent 3y agoIt would incentivize them to use or lose it. The government is protecting their discovery via patent law, why is it not allowed to remove this protection. Patents and copyright are very recent inventions. Not everyone is motivated by profit. People were inventing things before capitalism consumed the world.