Patents should be abolished.
I disagree.
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SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 month ago
So for 20 years, it wasn’t possible for anyone but BlackBerry to manufacture phones with the revolutionary technology of… checks notes keyboards, and now that it is irrelevant to modern devices, if free for anyone to use.
Patents should be abolished.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
BB being able to protect itself from the big players is actually a success story of patents. The 800 lb gorilla’s of the industry never made as good of a keyboard, but if they could have copied BB’s superior design, they would have stomped them in a heartbeat.
There’s a lot of shit about what happens for a dying company and selling patents and so forth that absolutely is scummy. Serious discussion needs to happen there, but calling for them to be abolished? That’s just naive.