Re: Do patents really foster innovation?

From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 23:50:33 MST

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    Hal Finney wrote:

    > If everyone were like you, no one would use patents, so the issue would be
    > moot. The problem only arises with regard to inventors who are interested
    > in protecting their ideas, since that is the function of patents.
    > Refusing to consider such inventors renders discussion impossible.
    > Your approach to this problem is fundamentally self-contradictory.

    To be precise, what some inventors seek to protect with patents is
    a monopoly on a given market, rather than an idea. The idea is in
    no danger of being harmed. :)

    -- 
    Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com>
    'Institute regime change everywhere...
     to "None of the above."' -- Alex Future Bokov
    


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