Re:There Are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property (2010)
by modo_mario on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:47AM
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There's also the issue of tactics being used to extend hold on these concepts indefinitely.
Intel and AMD don't have much competition going in their duopoly i believe in part because by the time their patents would run out the processor standards have been extended with new technologies blocking anyone from ever entering that space to compete and help innovate.
Re:There Are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property (2010)
by snowwrestler on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:39AM
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Patents cover implementations, not ideas.
Yet it falls into the neat, plausible and wrong category of ideas. In reality that isn't what happens, and it is based upon the assumption that ideas are unique and only occur once, when we know that ideas are ten a penny, and it is implementations in practice that we are short of - something that is exacerbated when you have to negotiate the patent troll arena.
Trade secrets are not a threat to the advancement of society because they will be rediscovered. Stopping implementations is a threat because that's actually what we want to have cheaper goods and services - which advances society.
The X causes Y arguments behind intellectual property laws are classic truth by repeated assertion.