You can't SERIOUSLY be arguing that ALL patents are evil,
can you?
You can't honestly be saying that all true and
actual INVENTIONS shouldn't
benefit their inventors?
Actually, there are a LOT of people who
WOULD seriously argue that! How many patented inventions can you name that were
real inventions?
Take the steam engine. Patents held up progress, and the
steam engine was actually invented in the 1st millenium *B*C*! Okay, it was only
a toy back then ...
Or take the aeroplane. What damage did patents do to
aviation? And as I like to point out, the first successful powered aircraft to
be built was built in Britain. Okay, the Wright Flyer was built and flew in the
gap between the building and flying of this aircraft ...
I repeat - name
just ONE invention that was worthy of a patent, but that wasn't just a minor
improvement on something else. And don't say Edison's lightbulb. Edison was a
patent troll and a far better lightbulb (which Edison knew of!) was patented two
years before Edison filed his patent. As usual, the US legal system was being
used to rip off foreign IP.
Cheers, Wol [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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