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Re:Gov’t Contractor Copies Open Source 3D Printing Concept a... by sebastien_b on Sunday June 26, 2022 @04:43PM (#31887756)
All good points; I will however point out something about this specifically:

>then you're going to have to give them lots of time and lots of resources ... that's going to make it all too costly.

If the system has to become prohibitively costly to get it to a level of semblance of actually working, then one has to wonder if it's worth it at all for it to exist.

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Re:Gov’t Contractor Copies Open Source 3D Printing Concept a... by pbhjpbhj on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:21PM (#31896801)
It doesn't matter how expensive your telescope is, if you want it to have perfect optics you'll have to spend more. You need to decide at what point it is good enough. If your post-processing is good (courts) then you can cut costs on the optics (patent examination) and still achieve the results you want.
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Re:Gov’t Contractor Copies Open Source 3D Printing Concept a... by sebastien_b on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:33PM (#31898706)
But I wouldn't expect my neighbour to have to pay to fix/improve the optics on my telescope.
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Re:Gov’t Contractor Copies Open Source 3D Printing Concept a... by nceqs3 on Monday June 27, 2022 @08:53AM (#31893891)
The patent system works currently...
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Re:Gov’t Contractor Copies Open Source 3D Printing Concept a... by sebastien_b on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:38AM (#31896086)
...somewhat
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