[devwastaken]

Patents, intellectual property, etc. It's why every appliance is trash nowadays. Big corps are IP holders, and there's only so many ways to engineer certain actions. Regardless even if you try to startup a company you'll be pushed out by the control big corps have over manufacturing.

We need to start nullifying IP if we ever hope to see innovation.

[mensetmanusman]

Probably not this, most IP can be worked around, and especially in the area of AC operations and thermodynamics, that hasn’t changed in almost a century.