A shitty solution for a shitty situation is not a good solution
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 23 hours agoPatents shouldn’t exist! Mostly.
We had a history before patents/copyright were enforced. It was pretty brutal for anyone trying to make a living with their creations. Take a look and see if you want to return to that.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
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”.
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
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.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 21 hours 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.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
What patent or copyright is preventing you from making a living?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Uhhhh…. You are aware of what topic you are posting in, right?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Are you the Palworld developer then? This is preventing YOU from making a living?
otp@sh.itjust.works 19 hours 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.