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| Authored by: ukjaybrat on Monday, April 29 2013 @ 03:28 PM EDT |
it's not that you would be less willing to patent the
device... you would patent it right away.
The problem is that you would be less willing to put up any
of your patents to a standard (because apparently those
licenses aren't even worth a penny).
Thus, everyone else out there trying to make teleportation
devices that don't want to buy a license from you would have
to come up with their own proprietary way of making the
device, which would in turn be incompatible with your
device. There would eventually be dozens of different
teleportation devices that can't be used with each other.
thus instead of dozens of different companies working toward
the same goal: making teleportation better, more efficient,
less bug prone, cheaper, faster, etc... you have dozens of
different companies reinventing the wheel because they all
have to do the same work independently, all because the
first guy didn't create a standard.
that help?
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| Authored by: Kilz on Monday, April 29 2013 @ 03:37 PM EDT |
Personally I think its common sense that people dont spend
money to develop patents and then dont expect to see a return
on that investment.
Since you seem to think that proof is required that profit is
a motive. Perhaps you would like to provide proof that it
isnt.
Please provide links to a for profit company that gave away
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 30 2013 @ 01:23 PM EDT |
If you already have the method for teleportation, you might go ahead and
implement it.
The thing is, most things don't just fall into your lap. In order to get a
method for teleportaion, one usually has to make an R&D investment. For the
sake of argument, lets say that costs 1 billion dollars.
Now, if on the first day you would sell your teleporter someone could buy one,
take it apart and start making copies for 200 bucks instead of the 50,000 you
would have to charge to earn back your investment, you will determine that you
could never make back your billion, let alone make a profit, because you would
be undercut in the market by copiers.
So, you would never "have a method of teleportation" in the first
place.
Everyone else would run the same calculation and come to the same conclusion, so
the world will never have teleportation, unless it falls in someones lap.
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