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Re:Sympathy for the Luddites by tomjen3 on Friday June 14, 2013 @06:35PM (#5882908)
Technology doesn't drop from the sky, like everything else it is created (or farmed, or dug up from the earth) and rightfully belongs to its creator.
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Re:Sympathy for the Luddites by gngeal on Friday June 14, 2013 @06:44PM (#5882961)
Yes, that is why whenever you invent something independently you're fucked because of this nasty thing called "the patent system" that essentially guarantees that most things you create already belong to someone else.
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Re:Sympathy for the Luddites by jrokisky on Friday June 14, 2013 @07:08PM (#5883067)
All inventions are built on those that came before them. How much iteration defines a new invention?
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Re:Sympathy for the Luddites by iwwr on Friday June 14, 2013 @07:41PM (#5883182)
In some ways yes, but if you mean intellectual property then no.
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