Will we as a community fail to innovate then? Yes, because there was no innovation until patent protection came to be. Do you seriously think we would have inv

Will we as a community fail to innovate then? Yes, because there was no innovation until patent protection came to be. Do you seriously think we would have invented and shared the secret of making fire over 10,000 years ago without patents to protect the original inventors? Or the wheel or the steam engine or telescopes? LOL