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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by IBM on Sunday May 18, 2014 @01:35PM (#7763657)
>People would not just stop innovating in the architecture space because they can't profit from it - fab manufacturers who make chips using the architecture can, and do.

Is this real life? I honestly can't believe people actually believe this.

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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by lotsofmangos on Sunday May 18, 2014 @09:12PM (#7765176)
If you couldn't profit from the IP of a faster computer, you could still profit from having a faster computer. Of course, this might mean that people are less likely to disclose information, which is the main economic benefit of the patent system.

I'm not completely against patents, I just think they have grown into something that is now more than slightly ludicrous and needs a serious trim before it becomes un-rescuable.

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