• BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Let’s take a look at countries with no patent laws and compare their innovations that contributed to the rest of the world:

    East Timor - nothing
    Suriname - nothing
    Somalia - nothing
    Eritrea - nothing
    Maldives - nothing
    Marshall Islands - nothing
    Micronesia - nothing
    Myanmar - nothing
    Palau - nothing
    South Sudan - nothing
    North Korea - nothing
    
    
    • Richard@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is literally just whataboutism. You must be degenerate if you think that there’s a correlation between the research performance of the listed countries and their patent laws. There are dozens of more useful and much more relevant indicators for why these nations are disadvantaged in this regard. But just stick to your belief that North Korea is what it is because it doesn’t have patent laws lol.

      Also, for you to better understand the harm that software patents caused and are causing, consider reading Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman.

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        1 year ago

        There is literally a 1:1 correlation between protecting IP and R&D and innovation. Start ups that patent their ideas are genuinely more successful. You’re naive if you think IP only helps protect large companies.

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        1 year ago

        My mistake, you’re right. We should completely remove the incentive to innovate novel ideas and no longer protect them if they are created to allow theft.

        I am a hypocrite thief that uses free software in my daily life.

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          Not worth it mate. People will find all kinds of post hoc ways to justify the fact that they want to use the tech that others have developed for free.