Am Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2016 schrieb Renaud OLGIATI: > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 11:45:32 +0100 > Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > > > The reason patents were introduced for was getting more money for the king. > > No, they were introduced to guarantee the inventor the exclusivity of his > invention for a certain time, so he alone could profit from it during that > time. > > Introduced to make research economically viable.
And it was granted for 5 years then and it did never work. When you take a look at inventions/IP in Germany from 18th century til now then you see that patents killed innovation. There have been some studies done on this, there are even papers from the US goverment from ~ 1950 that question the benefit of the patent system. Here's a link to an explanation how patent system works today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AB633rlUkg - enjoy the "innovation". BTW, I hold patents myself, so I know quite well what they are good for. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
