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Tim Berners-Lee should have patented "text pages over a network," dude would be a bajillionaire.
by homosaur 14y ago
Tim Berners-Lee should have patented "text pages over a network," dude would be a bajillionaire.
- astrodust 14y agoAlso the World Wide Web would never have happened because who would want to marry themselves to a platform encumbered by so many patents?
- homosaur 14y agoSo you're saying that patents can be destructive to markets??? Man, I wish someone in the US government agreed with you on thatOH WAIT http://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/more/2012-035 http://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/more/2012-035 Not that a single report means anything for policy, I just saw this on HN a few days ago and thought it was relevant to that point.