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by wavefunction
3795 days ago
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That's a very cynical and inaccurate appraisal of "The Time Before Patents." Most scientific breakthroughs throughout history were pursued due to simple curiosity or necessity, precisely because without an international framework of patent law "patents" and the pursuit of technology as intellectual property directly for financial gain was impossible. The British for example attempted to control physical access to textile IP but Samuel Slater[1] memorized as much as he could and "exported it" along with himself to the Americas to reap a fortune. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater |
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