I don't know how to convey to you how important it is to incentivize innovation without worrying someone else will simply steal your ideas to make millions from your hard work you did inventing something while they literally did nothing.

If I make something and someone else can simply take it and dominate the market with it and pay me nothing for the work i did, why the fuck should I even bother making anything?

TIL that open source doesn't exist.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

TIL that morons here don't know the difference between software patents and copyright licenses.

[–] SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh sorry, I was under the impression that you had at least a basic knowledge about software and software development.

I now see that that's not the case.

Open source is an area where software patents don't generally protect the product, and yet it's the most innovative space out there. And in cases where patents are brought in (see the rust trademark incident) they are rejected by the community. And yet open source is still around, and powering most of the internet and present in most devices.

If what you said about patents were the case, that would not be so.