The whole patent system sucks. It has nothing to do with reality.
The aspect of "you are granted a monopoly on a technology for a period of time" is something that is especially bad.
The aspect of "you are granted a monopoly on a technology for a period of time" is something that is especially bad.
We should have the same with software.
Source is less important with LLMs now, but it's wasteful and destructive to the planet to have everyone need to use them to reverse engineer things for no reason.
An economy built around not making knowledge prolific is obviously a bad, inefficient idea, and in the end will be our downfall.
That would infringe upon my freedom as a creator of software. No thanks.
Instead of patents, the government could just pay scientists who make useful things. Sure it costs government money, but so do the lawsuits.
But most of science is funded by the government ... shouldn't the taxpayer get something in return?