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

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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