Gregory's Server@landley I'm *super* not convinced that patents have any sensible philosophical grounding (in the sense that say physical property rights do), nor that they offer any pragmatic payoff either.
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 @landley I'm *super* not convinced that patents have any sensible philosophical grounding (in the sense that say physical property rights do), nor that they offer any pragmatic payoff either. 1 comment
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@duncan_bayne originally they lasted 7 years, and the point was to get people to document and publish their inventions rather than keep them secret like guilds did, and people had a nasty habit of dying with a secret, ala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass
Extending patents to 20 years, while technology has gotten WAY better at reverse engineering the formula of Coca-Cola or the 11 herbs and spices in the chicken? That's just capitalist greed.