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To roughly recall a comment someone made to me on HN a while back, if it's profitable to think of ideas and do nothing with them until you can sue someone else
by AlisdairO 14y ago
To roughly recall a comment someone made to me on HN a while back, if it's profitable to think of ideas and do nothing with them until you can sue someone else independently coming up with the same idea, there's a problem with the patent system. The whole point of patents is that they're for ideas that it would be unlikely that someone else would come up with on their own.