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Re:Nintendo Is Trying to Patent Some Broad Tears of the King... by stasmo on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @12:38PM (#37149673)
I agree with you, but one could argue that R&D money comes from a desire to patent.
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Re:Nintendo Is Trying to Patent Some Broad Tears of the King... by sam0x17 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @01:06PM (#37150106)
One could, and one could counter with "then that is R&D done for the wrong reasons"

This is why we (at least used to) have things like wide-sweeping federally funded research grants aimed at advancing science and technology in areas and ways short-sighted profit-seeking R&D can seldom touch

Not discovering a thing is almost better than someone discovering it and then patenting it, imo. It's negative progress.

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Re:Nintendo Is Trying to Patent Some Broad Tears of the King... by mrguyorama on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @02:16PM (#37151313)
And I would point to the entirety of Open Source software
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