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11 months ago • •

patents are my favorite tool for protecting innovation by preventing innovation on a particular concept (???)

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in reply to chjara • 11 months ago • •

they create innovation by forcing people to solve the same problem 15 times

in reply to StellaFoxxie :spinny_fox_nb: • 11 months ago •

I wonder if that's part of the story behind the trend described in xkcd #927.

in reply to Neil E. Hodges • 11 months ago • •

@tk that has more to do with licensing costs than patents but yes

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