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The patent system is supposed to encourage the progress of science and useful arts THROUGH rewarding inventors.
by perishabledave 14y ago
The patent system is supposed to encourage the progress of science and useful arts THROUGH rewarding inventors.
- Natsu 14y agoIt says "may" not "shall" though, so to the extent it's not doing the job, it can (and should) be reworked.
- angersock 14y agoThat's well and good too--excepting the fact that the free market already does this, and at the rate the patent system/legal system move, the deck is utterly stacked against the pioneers unless they've got gigantic money behind them. And since software has such low barriers to entry, this really does not help progress.