[swiley]

I'm not convinced intellectual property encourages innovation at all. People needing a solution to a problem encourages innovation, intellectual property law sometimes lets people create arbitrage on top of that but usually when the profit becomes significant and the original problem is solved the innovation stops.

[pixl97]

Intellectual property should be taxed like normal property.

If course the big difficulty is in determining its value. Currently it is both priceless and worthless.

[pksebben]

I would love to see a world where your monthly government ethereum check is balanced against some equation like the number of open source PRs merged * repo utilization