Comment on GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations"

• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember when Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung Electronics and Tencent all had to come together and form a super group to develop a royalty free video codec because something as simple as compressing and decompressing video was so god damn patent encumbered by people who just existed to suck money out of everyone.

  Literally, every time software is patented, it ends up being used to screw with everyone, then eventually the patent expires ten years after the software was useful, or we have to waste huge amounts of effort to sideline it.

  You sound like you need a history refresher on patents in the software industry and the disastrous effect that it has had in hurting innovation and consumers and how it is dominated by trolls and squatters.

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  • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don't know how to convey to you how important it is to incentivize innovation without worrying someone else will simply steal your ideas to make millions from your hard work you did inventing something while they literally did nothing.

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Again, look at the history of software patents. Tell me a single time it incentivied innovation and wasn’t just used by patent trolls and wasn’t just a huge waste of time and money for the industry to spend time on.

      I think you are wholey unfamiliar with software patents in general and are just going on some basic guiding principal and I can tell you right now, history has not played out in your idilic description at all and you are just coming off as ignorant on the topic.

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      • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Let's take a look at countries with no patent laws and compare their innovations that contributed to the rest of the world:

        East Timor - nothing
        Suriname - nothing
        Somalia - nothing
        Eritrea - nothing
        Maldives - nothing
        Marshall Islands - nothing
        Micronesia - nothing
        Myanmar - nothing
        Palau - nothing
        South Sudan - nothing
        North Korea - nothing
        

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    • SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know how to convey to you how important it is to incentivize innovation without worrying someone else will simply steal your ideas to make millions from your hard work you did inventing something while they literally did nothing.

      If I make something and someone else can simply take it and dominate the market with it and pay me nothing for the work i did, why the fuck should I even bother making anything?

      TIL that open source doesn’t exist.

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      • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        TIL that people here don't know the difference between software patents and copyright licenses.

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• Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As someone who is in the field of intellectual property, Lemmy’s views on IP boil down to “I attended Marxism 101 and want to pirate games”. Most here don’t have a clue how much time, effort and money is spent on innovation. They couldn’t even begin to fathom why protecting intellectual property helps people actually helps people get paid for their work, which is ironic as they are all for people being rewarded for their actual labour.

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