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I personally thing that government involvement in the market, granting monopolies is actually harmful and we should abolish all intellectual property. Now it i

I personally thing that government involvement in the market, granting monopolies is actually harmful and we should abolish all intellectual property. Now it is proper for the government to stop fraud so trademarks and plagiarism would still be valid government concerns, but deciding what deserves and does not deserve a monopoly would be out of its reach.

blasdel 17y ago
The problem is more that these days the patent publication is totally useless -- it doesn't describe anything useful for copying the 'invention', and is totally obvious to boot. The government is granting a not-so 'limited monopoly' for what is essentially a trade secret. If software patents required full disclosure of source code and schematics, they wouldn't be nearly as shitty.