fatslob-:O said:
Wouldn't that mean just less competition consequently ? You buying up your potential competitors it only means less competition in the end ... You only furthered my point that patents serve to keep monopolies alive ... Big companies buying small startups is not a failure entirely but the winner is still the big companies in the end but for other startups that did not face similar cases are casted into oblivion ... Just more reasons why a patent system shouldn't exist ... |
Being aquired by a larger company is a choice. Being destroyed by a larger company in a "fair" fight because they have access to the exact tech you invented isn't a choice. Go ask any start-up (That has anything to do with patents) if they'd prefer to have the option of selling the company to a bigger company, or don't sell it and continue to expand your business all by yourself, OR if they'd want to give all that research to the larger company for free, so that they don't even have to buy the company to get the tech, cause they get it for free.
Thankfully, a patentless future won't happen, so I won't bother to discuss this any further.
