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by dreamdu5t 4780 days ago
I'd be interested in the reasoning you would support copyright but not patents? Copyright and patents have the exact same justification, just one is for published works and the other for "inventions." Both copyright and patents are titles of ownership to information.
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alipang 4780 days ago
I support patents, just not software patents. You can spend billions developing a new drug, and companies need to get reimbursed somehow for that, or everybody loses.

How much you think was been spent "inventing" two-factor authentication?

Can you give an example of software that you'd argue wouldn't have been developed if there were no software patents?

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wnight 4780 days ago
Copyright is somewhat legitimate because it recognizes that I may create an identical work especially if the problem space is small.

Patents are all about camping on an idea you hope is so obvious the next people will instinctively think of the same thing.

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