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Greed is the problem.
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 05:42 AM EDT
That doesn't excuse the patent system at all.

Greed is something that needs to be taken into account when designing a legal
construct like this, not something to heap the blame on when the construct
doesn't actually perform as expected.

Governments shouldn't be giving monopolies away to private parties. We have
governments because we need the holders of our monopolies to be held
accountable. The patent system defeats that purpose.

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Greed is the problem.
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 07:27 AM EDT
Well, so what if you see greed as a problem? Channeling unmitigated greed through laws and infrastructure into something beneficial to society is the fundamental tenet of capitalism.

If patent laws funnel greed into something harmful to society as a whole, they need to get changed.

But greed far beyond any sanity (how many dinners can you eat throughout your life? How many rooms can you live in?) is what makes our wheels go round in the first place.

You need to use it effectively rather than frown on it.

Or go elsewhere. But in the U.S., it's the motor you have to work with.

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