DISQUS

Technology Liberation Front: Some Obvious Thing

  • Don Marti · 2 years ago
    "Patents are bad for the software industry?"

    Probably not, for incumbents. Government-enforced barriers to entry are a good thing. USPTO does for Big Software what the FCC does for Big Media and the FDA does for Big Pharma.

  • eee_eff · 2 years ago
    "Patents are bad for the software industry?"

    Probably not, for incumbents. Government-enforced barriers to entry are a good thing. USPTO does for Big Software what the FCC does for Big Media and the FDA does for Big Pharma.

    No. government enforced barriers to entry are almost uniformly a bad thing, and lead inevitably to less competition.

    Conflating Health and Safety or environmental programs with other 'Government-enforced barriers to entry' is not correct; those programs are necessary for other reasons, and although they may sometimes be a barrier to entry, they are not always so.

    They exist for other reasons. Just ask a few folks in Panama that bought what they thought was cold medicine...
  • small inventor (aka "patent tr · 2 years ago
    Bullshit...
  • Chris Brand · 2 years ago
    Of course they can be both good for the incumbents and bad for the industry as a whole.