Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations"

• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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  • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨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
    

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    • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is literally just whataboutism. You must be degenerate if you think that there’s a correlation between the research performance of the listed countries and their patent laws. There are dozens of more useful and much more relevant indicators for why these nations are disadvantaged in this regard. But just stick to your belief that North Korea is what it is because it doesn’t have patent laws lol.

      Also, for you to better understand the harm that software patents caused and are causing, consider reading Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman.

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      • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My mistake, you're right. We should completely remove the incentive to innovate novel ideas and no longer protect them if they are created to allow theft.

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      • Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There is literally a 1:1 correlation between protecting IP and R&D and innovation. Start ups that patent their ideas are genuinely more successful. You’re naive if you think IP only helps protect large companie.

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• SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know how to convey to you how important it is to incentivize innovation without worrying someone else will simply steal your ideas to make millions from your hard work you did inventing something while they literally did nothing.

  If I make something and someone else can simply take it and dominate the market with it and pay me nothing for the work i did, why the fuck should I even bother making anything?

  TIL that open source doesn’t exist.

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  • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIL that people here don't know the difference between software patents and copyright licenses.

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    • SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh sorry, I was under the impression that you had at least a basic knowledge about software and software development.

      I now see that that’s not the case.

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