• echo64@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Again, look at the history of software patents. Tell me a single time it incentivied innovation and wasn’t just used by patent trolls and wasn’t just a huge waste of time and money for the industry to spend time on.

    I think you are wholey unfamiliar with software patents in general and are just going on some basic guiding principal and I can tell you right now, history has not played out in your idilic description at all and you are just coming off as ignorant on the topic.

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      Let’s take a look at countries with no patent laws and compare their innovations that contributed to the rest of the world:

      East Timor - nothing
      Suriname - nothing
      Somalia - nothing
      Eritrea - nothing
      Maldives - nothing
      Marshall Islands - nothing
      Micronesia - nothing
      Myanmar - nothing
      Palau - nothing
      South Sudan - nothing
      North Korea - nothing
      
      
      • Richard@lemmy.world
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        This is literally just whataboutism. You must be degenerate if you think that there’s a correlation between the research performance of the listed countries and their patent laws. There are dozens of more useful and much more relevant indicators for why these nations are disadvantaged in this regard. But just stick to your belief that North Korea is what it is because it doesn’t have patent laws lol.

        Also, for you to better understand the harm that software patents caused and are causing, consider reading Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman.

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          There is literally a 1:1 correlation between protecting IP and R&D and innovation. Start ups that patent their ideas are genuinely more successful. You’re naive if you think IP only helps protect large companies.

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          My mistake, you’re right. We should completely remove the incentive to innovate novel ideas and no longer protect them if they are created to allow theft.

          I am a hypocrite thief that uses free software in my daily life.

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            1 year ago

            Not worth it mate. People will find all kinds of post hoc ways to justify the fact that they want to use the tech that others have developed for free.