| > But what do you think motivates developers to invent in the first place? Without that motivation where would the ecosystem be? Developers develop because they feel a need to develop. No more, no less. Painting, music, writing, etc. are similar. Creators create because they must create. I'd say open source invalidates the assumption that there would be no advancement without patents. All the while the evidence has piled up that patents actually don't promote advancement anymore:
https://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044_print.html > http://www.iphalloffame.com/korekiyo_takahashi/ Interesting, but I would point out that he was making those statements at a point in time where the US was literally ripping off anything and everything in the UK that was patented (aka: what China has currently been doing to the US). That time period is, in fact, a prime example of advancement without strong patent protections. |