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That doesn't support your point, it supports mine.
by gnaritas 13y ago
That doesn't support your point, it supports mine.
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- dllthomas 13y agoYou seriously need to explain how, because as far as I can tell your claim here is nothing but brain-damage. As we've agreed, "promoting the progress of science and useful arts" is the purpose of patents. PROMOTING DISCLOSURE IS A MECHANISM, and PROMOTING INVENTION IS A MECHANISM and YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT BOTH, dismissing the former as ancillary and pushing the latter as central. A claim that you weren't talking about mechanisms... baffles me. Without some clarification, I'm calling it quits on this thread.
- gnaritas 13y agoNo I was not talking about both, I dismissed them as mechanisms to bring the point back to the only thing I was discussing, the goal. I don't care about the mechanisms and if you can't see that then maybe you've got some brain damage to cope with and you should stop talking.
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- dllthomas 13y agoHolding on to the slim remaining chance you're not trolling... I quote you again: "[M]otivating inventors was not the purpose of patents, it's merely the side effect of the method used to get inventors to give up their trade secrets." Let's break this down a little: "X was not the purpose of patents, it's merely a side effect of the method used to get Y." And now you're claiming you weren't talking about X and Y? Note that I've shown this to others, and they don't understand your position either, so if it's brain-damage it's not uniquely mine.