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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by habitue on Sunday May 18, 2014 @01:30PM (#7763639)
As someone who once invested in ARM, and has looked at their balance sheets in depth: yes, it's a cent or two per phone.

Your unexamined assumption here is that copyright monopolies are the only way to compensate people for work like this. That's not the case.

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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by msbarnett on Sunday May 18, 2014 @01:37PM (#7763671)
Genuinely curious: what do you think would be some other practical, achievable ways of ensuring that the people at a company like ARM get compensated for their work without "putting the force of the state behind their 'thought-property'"?
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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by habitue on Sunday May 18, 2014 @01:56PM (#7763727)
We actually have a bunch of examples since there are many industries which don't have the ability to obtain copyright monopolies or patents (or either).

Here's a good list (I hope you'll excuse the libertarian source): http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Without_Intellectual_Property

People are making money today doing creating intellectual products without the benefit of copyrights and patents, and they're some of the highest margin industries out there.

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