[Waywocket]

>If you wish to go to a system whereby there is no patent system, then recognize that people wouldn't be revealing their inventions, and thus things like android couldn't exist, because they wouldn't have a source of technology to copy.

Congratulations. You win the 'most mind-bogglingly retarded statement of the millennium' award.

In reality, I'm aware that nobody is actually stupid enough to hold such an indefensibly ludicrous position, so you're clearly trolling. Good job though, it's the first troll so successful that I'm not going to read HN again. A community that could give this trash even a single upvote is not a community I want to go anywhere near.

[pjscott]

A community of sufficient size is always going to have people whom you consider complete idiots.