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Linking to your own website is fine and all, but not exactly a reference. And it’s hilariously short sighted. Without patent and copywrite protections, you’ll instantly see innovation come out of places where people are paid for their work. US offloading it’s manufacturing in a short sighted move to cheap labor and head-in-sand environmental outlook - sure, let’s kill the design industries too now too. There is a pro…
If going patent-free is good enough for the transistor… Do you have any rebuttal to parent’s points on Purdue and tech monopolies?
Do you really think drug cartels need the IPTO? Or that the opioid crisis couldn't possibly have happened if the opioids had been generics?
Who has an IP monopoly on alcohol production? Is alcohol addition a huge problem, or not?
Why do you believe tech monopolies rely specifically on patents and not on massive spending power, political leverage, and other influencing mechanisms?
Do you not understand that if you have the spending power, you can open-source your code and IP without even remotely endangering that monopoly?
The reality is that patents are a relatively tiny element in cost of entry to markets.
It's honestly baffling why the anti-copyright crowd believes removing patents and copyright will be some kind of magic bus ride to utopia, when there is no rational reason whatsoever to believe that.
And none of this has much to do with making scientific papers public domain - because that isn't even the same class of issue.