There are other ways to encourage innovation besides creating legal weaponry which are suppressive to individuals and small companies, and provide wide motes ag

There are other ways to encourage innovation besides creating legal weaponry which are suppressive to individuals and small companies, and provide wide motes against competition to giant corporations. The Nobel Prize, Pulitzer, Fields Medal etc. The X-Prize (a private space craft!) Open source software has resulted in companies achieving billion dollar plus market capitalizations for the companies which created them (orders of magnitude more in businesses based on such sw), successful kickstarters which raise millions for a great idea... In the technology world that we live in, what has created more wealth and technological velocity, patents or open source software? The right to restrict the use of an idea is a terrible idea. It's a global lock on thought.