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.
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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.
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...