All patents should be abolished. All such systems are unstable. They can't be "fixed". They quickly go to one extreme or the other. They either become so ineffectual that they shouldn't exist or they become so strong that they freeze out any other endeavour. There is no happy medium. Just get rid of them.
It's abominable to patent ideas. Ideas belong to the commons. Patent law says so. The American justice system is sick when it allows patent trolls to disregard the law.
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All patents should be abolished. All such systems are unstable. They can't be "fixed". They quickly go to one extreme or the other. They either become so ineffectual that they shouldn't exist or they become so strong that they freeze out any other endeavour. There is no happy medium. Just get rid of them.
PS: Copyrights are the same. Get rid of them too.
It's abominable to patent ideas. Ideas belong to the commons. Patent law says so. The American justice system is sick when it allows patent trolls to disregard the law.