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Originally Posted by Astro1176
As Anchoret has said, lawyers have bashed all this out before and come to a set of rules for a reason. If you want to make up your own rules and uphold some absolutist purist level of intellectual property, thats fine too, but it might be nice to do it consistently.
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But they
can't.
That's the whole point. Their argument is
inherently ignorant.
It's a stupid argument being posed by willfully stupid people. End of story.
Nearly every product you buy is an uncompensated exploitation of expired patent or uncompensated exploitation of unpatentable innovation.
You simply can't get around it.
There
is no ethical question here. Patent law has dictated for over two hundred years that it is both ethical and socially beneficial for as many people as possible to vigorously exploit
any technological innovation unprotected by current patent.
That's not opinion, that's
fact.
Opinions are what stupid people have instead of data. And they put them on Internet fora all day.
