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Both are blatantly anti-competitive measures.

• tastyfreeze 2y ago
  That is the point. A legal time limited monopoly. But it has to be time limited or progress is stalled. Five years is plenty of lead time to be remain ahead of competition.
  • PittleyDunkin 2y ago
    This seems to hurt society more than it helps. Plus now we are forced to hear yammering about chinese competition "stealing" (translation: competing).
    • tastyfreeze 2y ago
      If patents are done away with then we go back to trade secrets. Nobody will share their advancements. Then there is potential for advancements being lost.
  • jjtheblunt 2y ago
    agreed. i often consider that "open source" IS exactly what you are saying: release to others a non latest version of software, in continually rolling fashion, whereas upstream is internally used.