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I hope so. Have you ever been to China or India? This is the opposite extreme and it is worse. No one invents anything novel. Every product is cheap replica of
by ArtDev 12y ago
I hope so.
Have you ever been to China or India? This is the opposite extreme and it is worse. No one invents anything novel.
Every product is cheap replica of something else. Its a race to the bottom.
Much worse.
- lostcolony 12y agoMan, if that's the only alternative to patents, I wonder how we managed to bootstrap the idea of a patent system.
- sliverstorm 12y agoIt was harder to rip off somebody else's design hundreds of years ago, and the USA has not spent much time without patents. IP is even discussed in the Constitution.
- userbinator 12y agoEvery product is cheap replica of something else. ...and often has improvements that are practically useful. There, innovation happens bottom-up, with incremental changes to an existing product, and there's far more design sharing and competition since exclusivity doesn't last.