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Old 10-31-2009, 07:25 PM   #2 (permalink)
Brutha
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Do our fellow human beings really need that incentive to be inventfull and artistic?
Patent aren't about rewarding artistic things.
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Further more, there is still buisness oppertunity for the original creater, for being first, and the trust it ensures.
Then why do so many people use skype with wasn't even among the first 10 in voice-over-IP?

Patents aren't needed to encourage people to have ideas. They are however needed to get venture capital for testing some ideas if you don't want the state to pay those costs with tax money directly.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Most ideas fail when you try to put them into practice.
You need money to develop something like third generation DNA sequencing.
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