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• turkalino@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I find it interesting that you draw the line at software, as if it doesn’t require time and money to create software solutions.

  If it matters, I’m of the opinion that patents shouldn’t exist period. Capitalism loves to brag about encouraging competition and how much it benefits consumers, when in reality patents are super anticompetitive. An idea is one thing, executing the idea well is another. If I “take” your idea and execute it better than you, there shouldn’t be legislation stopping me

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• Telemachus93@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of course it’s work finding solutions to problems and you should be able to live off your work. And in capitalism, a patent sometimes is the only option to do so.

  However, patents and other forms of “intellectual property” are absolutely illogical and amoral. Nobody ever made a completely new thing. Every innovation builds on so much knowledge accumulated by so many people that came before. It’s absolutely nonsensical that an advancement that’s 99 % an achievement of humanity and 1 % of a single person should belong to that single person.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I disagree, patents makes sense for normal citizens, it gives them a legal framework to fight against a company just taking the invention from them without compensation.

    As for the 99% vs 1% contribution, remember that it is usually the last 1% of a project that consumes the most time.

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    • Telemachus93@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That’s a weak argument because everything used by normal citizens is, in practice, always used by the big corpos against the normal citizens in much greater quantity and with much more force.

      Now that I think of it, it’s no argument at all because I already admitted, that under capitalism, you might not have another choice to get paid for your work. That still doesn’t make it morally good or logically sound.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Software patents don’t exist in the real world. It’s just those dumb Americans living in their fantasy world who do it. Dumb fucks

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• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  why shouldn't I get to profit from that idea?

  Why should you exclusively get to profit from that idea? In any case all innovation stands on the shoulders of giants supported by society at large. The idea of owning an idea in the first place is absurd, but setting that aside if someone will assert exclusive rights to an idea they should first repay society for all its indirect contributions to that idea, from past innovators to the workers whose labor makes it all possible. Or course this is impossible, meaning owning an idea automatically becomes absurd. And this is before we get to how pretty much all parents are based on publicly funded research.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Because it is not really the idea specifically that you patent, you patent a method of making an idea work.

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    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Potato potato, the point still stands: It's impossible to come up with a new, say, car engine design without centuries' worth of thermodynamics and assorted physics, millennia's worth of metallurgy and the labor of hundreds if not thousands of people providing the food, water, electricity, manufactured goods, etc to make the act of innovation possible, and all those people have a claim to a piece of the pie.

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