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Re:Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism by cdash on Friday June 13, 2014 @07:12AM (#7888169)
Im not sure you can take a single thing, the patent system, which also exists in many other countries, and then apply that as the reason for the US to be a bastion of innovation for 200 years.

How do you even know that the US has not been innovative despite the patent system. That if the patent system did not exist, it would have progressed even further than it has.

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Re:Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism by jsweojtj on Friday June 13, 2014 @07:52AM (#7888296)
Adventured was saying that the US is a counterexample to the proposed statement that meant non-restrictive or non existent patent systems will be bastions of innovation.

In no way was Adventured arguing that because of the patent system, the US became a bastion of innovation.

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Re:Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism by couchand on Friday June 13, 2014 @08:25AM (#7888420)
The problem with that reply is that it's denying the antecedent. The original point was regarding a hypothetical country that jettisons its patent architecture, or never evolved a restrictive one to begin with. Using the US as a counterexample is arguing a different question.

As the original comment pointed out, the US has been successful, but it could be for many confounding reasons.

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