Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating

• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  yeah now its brutal for anyone trying to make a living and excellent for anyone who already inherited a living and has more money than they could use in multiple lifetimes. I’d hate to go back to when it was just brutal for anyone trying to make a living.

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think the problem would be similar. The rich and powerful would be the only ones to profit off of inventions and innovations.

    We still have indie game devs today. Imagine if any company could just copy an indie game and scale it up/polish a bit and get all the sales.

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    • riskable@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Imagine if any company could just copy an indie game and scale it up/polish a bit and get all the sales.

      You’re describing the entire mobile games industry. You think all those top apps in the app stores are 100% original? No. They copied other games.

      Also, patents have nothing to do with that. Software is covered by copyright.

      Furthermore, “back in the day” manufacturing was expensive and required huge factories to build stuff (in quantity). The barrier to entry was enormous! People were mostly uneducated and there was not much in the way of “shared engineering knowledge”. Ten thousand people could look at a car engine and have no friggin clue how it worked. That’s why patents were necessary: Disclosure

      These days disclosure has become irrelevant. Any engineer can look at an invention or product and figure out both how it works and how it was made. At the very least, they can figure out a way to make it. Just look at all the Youtube channels where every day people are making complicated machines, parts, and electronics! The mysteries are gone. Disclosure is unnecessary.

      Since the entire point of patents was disclosure why do we still need them?

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah now its brutal for anyone trying to make a living

    What patent or copyright is preventing you from making a living?

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uhhhh…. You are aware of what topic you are posting in, right?

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Uhhhh…. You are aware of what topic you are posting in, right?

        Are you the Palworld developer then? This is preventing YOU from making a living?

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A shitty solution for a shitty situation is not a good solution

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A shitty solution for a shitty situation is not a good solution

    Feel free to share your revolutionary idea that will still incentivize people to create without creating a “shitty situation”.

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t need to come up with any revolutionary ideas, the open source folks are already creating without patenting their creations

      Here’s a revolutionary idea: universal basic income. No need to prevent other people from monetizing your idea if you don’t need to monetize your idea in the first place

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t need to come up with any revolutionary ideas, the open source folks are already creating without patenting their creations

        The largest contributors to Open Source make their money from patents and other IP. As in, they can afford to give away lots of time and effort because they make their money with IP. If IP were to be eradicated as you’re proposing, all those contributions to Open Source by those largest contributors would evaporate. Here’s the largest Open Source contributors from 2017-2021.

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    • riskable@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Software existed for decades without (software) patents and has innovated and evolved vastly more quickly than any other science. Then we created software patents and things actually started to slow down (because lawsuits take time and threaten to end great software before it even exists).

      Software is already covered by copyright which is all that was necessary for some of the richest companies in the world to come into existence (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle). Software patents shouldn’t exist!

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