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I mean, Wikipedia says "the history of artificial refrigeration began when Scottish professor William Cullen [made a fridge]" But, again (merely sourcing from

• rvnx 2y ago
  Ideas and techs are consequences over previous discoveries so it is never a process with a single person. Even Einstein, it’s the continuity of previous works, etc. Failures that other did are also saving precious time. This is why the idea of patents is just absurd. Everybody should have the right to create anything they want, and the natural selection will do its work on keeping the best implementations alive.
  • juanani 2y ago
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  • marcosdumay 2y ago
    > This is why the idea of patents is just absurd. Well, not absurd. The last person on the chain contributed a lot to extending the chain. But yeah, ridiculously overblown. Patents should be a much lighter thing.
    • rvnx 2y ago
      Maybe 5 years or so. Not like music where unrelated people are earning millions on royalties of Ravel’s pieces that they inherited because so far-away relatives were cleaning their living room.
    • adamc 2y ago
      What you see there are the workings of power, particularly of large corporations. Not that different from copyright and Disney.
• coldtea 2y ago
  >I mean, Wikipedia says Yes, but the claim was that some kind of fame was stolen from the "real inventor of the fridge" (sic). And the parent's point is that the one considered the inventor atm (deservingly or not), hardly has any fame to begin with. Sure, he might have a Wikipedia entry, along with OnlyFans creators and every minor character in Star Wars lore. Including non-movie characters.