• echo64@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Again, look at the history of software patents. Tell me a single time it incentivied innovation and wasn’t just used by patent trolls and wasn’t just a huge waste of time and money for the industry to spend time on.

    I think you are wholey unfamiliar with software patents in general and are just going on some basic guiding principal and I can tell you right now, history has not played out in your idilic description at all and you are just coming off as ignorant on the topic.

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      11 months 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