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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
by 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 agoThis seems to hurt society more than it helps. Plus now we are forced to hear yammering about chinese competition "stealing" (translation: competing).
- tastyfreeze 2y agoIf 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 agoagreed. 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.