[PythonicAlpha]

I agree. But that believe is wrong.

The thing about "IP" is also, that differently from "ideas" or "inventions" -- "property" can be sold and bought. Also in the most cases, inventors are small people in big corporations that just get some small and fixed (at least in Germany this is the normal case) money for it. A bargain for the corporation that "owns" from now on the "ideas" and "inventions" of their employees.

Make a price tag on everything and you will get a world not worth living in!

[cgaudreau]

Indeed. It reminds me of how Steve Jobs received credit for Jony Ive's designs[0]. Americans have been raised and convinced to believe that CEOs and business executives are the source of all creativity, and that their wealth is a logical result of that.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-would-annoy-jony-i...