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> 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, ridiculou
by 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.