>> I'm not saying you do benefit from having competitors. Indeed, it's
>> primarily us consumers who benefit from your competition.
>
>SO you admit it. However, you don't seem to answer the question as to
why anyone
>would invent anything if they didn't get paid for it. Name me one
civilization in
>which there was a similar level of invention as there currently is in
the present
>day, yet did not protect the intellectual property of inventors? You
can't can
>you?
Com'n, Michael. Name me one civilization in which there
was a similar level of invention as there currently is in the
present day, *period*! This isn't a matter of patent protection,
but the scientific method, and books.
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