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Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoI’m not anti-profit. I’m anti state-granted monopoly.
If you invented it first, you already have advantages: expertise, brand, speed, know-how, first-mover position, customer trust. Profit should come from executing better, not from getting the state to forbid competitors from improving on your idea.
Patents are not capitalism; they are government-enforced market exclusion.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Without patent protection it would be impossible to bring anything new on the market unless you were allready one of the big companies.
Expertise, brand, speed, know-how, first-mover position, customer trust etc. are wothless if multinational mega conglomerate can just copy your homework and use their wealth to quickly massproduce your thing and spread it to every market of the world.