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Originally Posted by godwin
Having my career based on patents. I would say this, patents is worthless on paper and they are only worthwhile if you have the muscle (ie lawyers) to back you up.
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I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors.
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the point of this post wasn't to do with some elon musk tactic, ploy, or whatever.
it's just to state that he has opened a door which can lead to many things we cannot yet even imagine.
that being said, i support inventors and i understand they need "motivation" ($$$) to invent... but really... we're talking about a minority of a minority that actually see money flow their way.
the corporations that fund the inventors, that provide the workspace and materials, own the patents... not actual guy or team that came up with it.
Jonas Salk did the right thing.