[akoboldfrying]

So, for example, the secret sauce that makes the CPLEX and Gurobi solvers tens or hundreds of times faster than open source equivalents should simply be released to the public, leading to the immediate loss of 90% of those products' competitive advantage?

You don't see how such a policy would spur terror among large, profitable companies with trade secrets, leading to them moving overseas?

[Rygian]

If it's secret sauce, it's not a patent.

[beepbooptheory]

In these threads it always end up being: "Sure Foo would be nice, but, I don't know if you are aware, we are actually held at gunpoint by the status quo; its all really a non starter when you consider this fact."

If this is the only real problem, than why not just let them go overseas? Let the market play it out? The boon of progress and freedom X country would get from becoming even little more rational about IP would pay for itself and be better for actual people.

[mschuster91]

> The boon of progress and freedom X country would get from becoming even little more rational about IP would pay for itself and be better for actual people.

That's what China has been doing for decades, and "gongkai" [1] is just one tiny part of it. While life for the average Chinese citizen has gone up - the CCP managed to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty - the life of most Western populations has gone down the drain as entire industries, entire towns were unable to cope with unfair competition.

The societal consequences of that will haunt us all for many years to come.

[1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297

[kortilla]

I don’t think you understand how patents are used. It’s not secret sauce if it’s patented.