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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by sanxiyn on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:44PM (#21449675)
Note that your last point applies to copyright as well.
Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by TuringTest on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:13AM (#21451322)
And copyright shares a lot of the same problems. When everybody carries in their pocket a device that creates perfect copies of all kinds of information, the marginal economic value of a copy is reduced to zero, and you need to create artificial scarcity to support selling copies as a business model. That's why everyone is moving to "software as a service".