jeremyrussell: "People don't work that way" is question-begging (if you don't know what that logical fallacy is please see Wikipedia). The point is that they o

jeremyrussell: "People don't work that way" is question-begging (if you don't know what that logical fallacy is please see Wikipedia). The point is that they ought to work that way. People can and should change. Answering "well they don't work that way" as an argument against this is fallacious. I mean, take your argument and apply it to (say) cannibals. A cannibalistic tribe would say "well, we eat people, we've always eaten people, therefore things will never change." There can't be a logical, rational argument for patents. Which is unsurprising, since patents are clearly barbaric. So barbarians defend patents using (surprise) barbaric illogic.