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In history it has been the most productive and innovative, because research and development takes time and money. The wright brothers are patent trolls who prevented the US from making plane designs, but without them we wouldn’t have modern flight. If we took away this incentive I doubt the world would be better. Currently you have this system where countries that don’t respect patents will just make it anyway, the U…
Both systems can run alongside each other.
Don’t they? Free and open source stuff is often an implementation of closed source or commercial goods.
Without Bell labs, there’d be no Unix, no BSD, no Linux. Commercial can run by itself, but free systems cannot. Linux isn’t GPL3, so the rights still belong to the programmers.