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2 years ago
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.
2 years ago
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...
2 years ago
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