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Personally, I think patents do far more harm than they do good. They reward complacency. They reward laziness. They stifle innovation.
by mibbitier 14y ago
Personally, I think patents do far more harm than they do good. They reward complacency. They reward laziness. They stifle innovation.
- gaius 14y agoThen I hope you never need to do anything more complex than copying something someone's already done, least of all invest your own money in risky research that may yield no results.
- mibbitier 14y agoFWIW I'm listed as inventor on around 10 patents. The only area I think patents do make some sense is for medicine, where the R&D costs are astronomically high. But most other fields, R&D isn't that big a cost.