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I thought the purpose was to make sure other don't benefit from your own hardwork.
by romeros 3y ago
I thought the purpose was to make sure other don't benefit from your own hardwork.
- pfdietz 3y agoThat's the purpose of a patent. It's not the purpose of patents (as a system.)
- JohnFen 3y agoThat's not the purpose, that's the carrot the patent system gives in exchange for the invention being disclosed and ultimately (within a couple of decades) made available for general use. The purpose of the patent system, really, is to benefit society, not inventors.
- bediger4000 3y agoThat's the putative reason for both parents and copyright. And I addressed that: the machine isn't motivated economically to increase the public domain. The real reason is to own ideas, because people feel that creation is special. Takes hard work, or creativity or inspiration from the gods. Machine generated ideas undermines all of that.