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"We have the patent system to thank for this." Are you claiming that other phones are shitty because Apple has patented all the good ideas?
by mdonahoe 14y ago
"We have the patent system to thank for this."
Are you claiming that other phones are shitty because Apple has patented all the good ideas?
- CamperBob2 14y agoYes, because when the government grants monopoly power over abstract ideas -- something the current patent system isn't supposed to do but does anyway -- it puts its finger (if not its whole hand) on the scales of competition. Patents don't exist to help the little guy; if they did, we'd have gotten rid of them a long time ago. An argument in defense of patents is inevitably an exercise in defending companies that make hundreds of millions in profits before they even begin to enforce those patents. The profits should be enough.