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2009-10-22 , 19:33
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Originally Posted by solarion View Post
Nope. Patents and trade secrets help produce things, but they're not required
hehe you don't have to sell me, i'm very much against the patent system myself.

but you have to be realistic, in today's monetary society, it's about driving technology further, and if you have something new and unique it's important to protect that.
if that were not possible, the "big fish" would just scale down the cost of your new technology and you'd be out of business in no time, effectively hindering progress. because who would want to put time and money in developing his own, new ideas anymore?

i concur with you that that's not a good system, but it's sadly the truth.


Yes, however I'd argue that patents trolls are worse than leeches. And obscenely long copyright extension is entirely counter-productive.
And you must also prove that patents and copyrights being sold as a product, in the form they are right now, is actually beneficial to society. IMHO, they're currently detrimental to progress. I'd like to think that giving up our rights (which is what we do to provide copyright and patents) should give us back something, not stop progress.
i'm completely with you here. the problem is, you gotta change a lot more than just the patent system to make a difference... i'm talking about fundamental changes to society, away from our monetary system towards a resource-based economy. problem is, that's not very likely to happen soon.

although it might happen sooner than most of us think...

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wow, a lot happening in a short time
 

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