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Authored by: Wol on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 05:50 PM EDT
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

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I am totally serious.
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 04:24 AM EDT
Steal: to take, to deny someone else the use of.

Patents steal from the public as soon as they prohibit independant invention as
a viable technique to do something.

As that is all patents do, they are, by definition, stealing from the public.

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