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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,
by 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[dead]
- 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 agoMaybe 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 agoWhat you see there are the workings of power, particularly of large corporations. Not that different from copyright and Disney.