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No product of human thought is "worthy" of using brute violence in preventing another human from having the same thought, or from using that thought to build an
by wissler 14y ago
No product of human thought is "worthy" of using brute violence in preventing another human from having the same thought, or from using that thought to build and sell something useful. You have no right to bind down your fellow human beings merely because you stamp your feet whining "but I thought of it first!"
Patents are tyranny, and they are only justifiable on the moral reasoning of a two-year-old.
- carlisle_ 14y agoRight, because the civil legal system means you're going to jail if you don't comply! It's not a system where the loser goes to jail, don't pass go, don't collect $200. Libertarians crack me up. They're more disconnected from reality than the people they accuse of the same. The issue with the patent system as it is now is not the entire system, but rather the shortcomings of its implementation.
- wissler 14y agoPoint of fact: you do go to jail if you don't do what is commanded. Another point of fact: sarcasm and sneering are not an argument.
- carlisle_ 14y agoI'm no lawyer, but I do not believe it's possible, or at least it's highly unlikely that somebody would go to jail should they not pay up in a patent case ruling against them. If anything you'll have your assets seized and you'll file bankruptcy and that's the end of that. Pretty shitty, yes, but far from getting sent to jail. Yes, my post was sarcastic, but at least I'm rooted in reality instead of speaking in pure conjecture and hypothesis. There was more to my comment than just sarcasm, though you chose to ignore it and instead continue with the rhetoric.
- huhtenberg 14y agoTell it to the pharmaceutical companies. Patent protection is what, essentially, allows this industry to exist.