• BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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    I don’t know how to convey to you how important it is to incentivize innovation without worrying someone else will simply steal your ideas to make millions from your hard work you did inventing something while they literally did nothing.

    If I make something and someone else can simply take it and dominate the market with it and pay me nothing for the work i did, why the fuck should I even bother making anything?

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      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
        
        
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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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            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.