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thismeintiel on 22 July 2015
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fatslob-:O said:
thismeintiel said:

Yea, you say that, now.  I'm sure you'd be singing a different tune if you or someone you knew came up with a great idea/invention, but the sec you tried to sell it you were ripped off by a big corporation.  In your world, you would have no legal recourse, then they would be free to make millions/billions off the idea, while you died penniless.  That's what happened in 100's/1000's of years ago.  That's why we came up with patents.  Yea, some abuse it, but it does more good than bad.  So, there's no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Well thank god I won't be running a business and I hardly sing different tunes when I'm mostly realist so thank god I can also except inequality ...

More good than bad, ehh ? Hmm, so was introducing more monopolies, Apple bullying their competitors, patent trolls, protecting bigger companies and hurting small businesses worth it ? 

Not only that but businesses from other sectors can't pitch in when patents can cost an upwards of billions to acquire rights too ...

Sooo much lost potential innovation from the above is lost I somewhat shriek about it ... 

The only winners when patents system is in place are the lawyers since their jobs bank on it and they get tons of money from every lawsuit ... 

If patent systems weren't in place then those patent lawyers would go back to been inventors rather than dealing with more technical lawsuits ... 

Innovation lost?  Man, how did we ever come from room sized computers in the 50's to pocket sized ones just 55-60 years later.  Damn those patents.  Innovation has barely happened since we put them into place.  Oh wait, they actually helped excellerate it.  Why?  Because people can make money off of their own inventions, making them worthwhile to invest in in the first place.  Otherwise people wouldn't want to innovate, cause other companies could just rip them off and they see nothing from it.  And it doesn't cost billions to aquire a patent.  It may cost millions to buy out a smaller company who owns the patent, but to get the initial patent is not billions. 

And I already said we need to deal with trolls, so don't ignore that.  Of course, you would have MUCH worse than trolls if we got rid of the patent system.  You would have straight up thieves.  Now, we have bigger companies having to at least buy out smaller ones for millions to aquire their tech, which actually pays the ones who came up with the invention/innovation.  Without patents, ANYONE would be able to steal others' ideas.  This means big companies would just take smaller companies ideas, meaning they get nothing.  Your world just benefits larger companies, while killing smaller ones.