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As someone who once invested in ARM, and has looked at their balance sheets in depth: yes, it's a cent or two per phone. Your unexamined assumption here is tha
by habitue 12y ago
As someone who once invested in ARM, and has looked at their balance sheets in depth: yes, it's a cent or two per phone.
Your unexamined assumption here is that copyright monopolies are the only way to compensate people for work like this. That's not the case.
- msbarnett 12y agoGenuinely curious: what do you think would be some other practical, achievable ways of ensuring that the people at a company like ARM get compensated for their work without "putting the force of the state behind their 'thought-property'"?
- habitue 12y agoWe actually have a bunch of examples since there are many industries which don't have the ability to obtain copyright monopolies or patents (or either). Here's a good list (I hope you'll excuse the libertarian source): http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Without_Intellectual_Property http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Without_Intellectual_Property People are making money today doing creating intellectual products without the benefit of copyrights and patents, and they're some of the highest margin industries out there.