This is just a symptom of what others here have pointed out, that our "intellectual property" laws are out of control. Our entire society, everything that we take for granted on a daily basis, is based on previous ideas and inventions which are based on previous ideas and inventions ad infinitum.
What we're doing now is making it harder and harder for us to take previous ideas and inventions and improving on them or even mimic them. We're locking up those precious resources and giving them to wealthy people or corporations who have no interest in the public good but only care about profits or ego.
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"Intellectual property" should be renamed "intellectual theft"
What we're doing now is making it harder and harder for us to take previous ideas and inventions and improving on them or even mimic them. We're locking up those precious resources and giving them to wealthy people or corporations who have no interest in the public good but only care about profits or ego.
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Scott.
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