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by justinclift
2478 days ago
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> The alternative is that nobody shares anything with anyone. Open Source software demonstrates otherwise. Also interesting, several major companies in existence today (including a well known chocolate manufacturer) were started when their home country decided patents weren't useful, so stopped using them. |
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Major opensource projects are predominantly developed by fulltime professionals working for companies that obtain patents as a matter of policy.
We have an example of what the world was like before patents: the guild system. It didn't appreciably advance technology.