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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
You might not feel that way if YOU had spent close to $40,000 and enough time to get a doctors degree.
Lets say you just work for me for free for the next 5 years (10,000 hours) and give me $40K of you life's savings.
That just covers the cost.
I think my patent is good for 17.5 years but requires a "service fee" for "maintenance" every 4 years or so.
regards
Mech
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Patent protection, IP, and the rest is just a way of gate-keeping. Benefits a handful at the expense of the many. No one in our society or others does what they do alone, the contributions of others (hell, of nature) stand underneath it.
The current system not only doesn't work (as your post indicates), its' turned into a method (long ago) to stifle competition, not promote it. Like every system or institution, the corruption is so deep as to go past all efforts of reform.
I'm in favor, as is everyone, of seeing a return on effort. But what we have is more problem than solution. A clean slate would be best. Simple and short.
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