There is more to IP than just copyright. There are many inventors who would pack it in if they couldn’t guarantee patents for their products. I do lots of work for individuals and small and medium enterprises. Patents protect them from being infringed by large corporations. Sounds like you’re trying to school a highly qualified professional in something that you’ve only just googled 5 minutes ago. I see Lemmy is just like Reddit in that way.
It’s not a far more interesting question to me because ultimately it’s not going to happen. When you spend too long theorycrafting instead of just trying to think about sensible policy that’s workable in reality you end up in bubbles like this agreeing with memes written by 14 year olds who have just discovered Marx.
Sounds like you’re trying to school a highly qualified professional in something that you’ve only just googled 5 minutes ago. I see Lemmy is just like Reddit in that way.
Nobody is “schooling” anyone, friend. You brought up IP, I attempted to engage with you because I thought you wanted to talk about it. And now you’re crying about nobody can disagree with a “highly qualified professional” and have turned a request for you to share your thoughts and experience into a confrontation.
just trying to think about sensible policy that’s workable in reality
That’s literally what I’ve been trying to do. To get you to tell me what you think sensible policy is.
I think I’m upsetting you, so I’m going to disengage now. Hope your day gets better, mate.
I did share my thoughts and you just blatantly ignored them because you didn’t consider that real people and small businesses also benefit from intellectual property laws at the expense of corporations.
Sensible policy discussions don’t begin with nodding along to oversimplified memes.
There is more to IP than just copyright. There are many inventors who would pack it in if they couldn’t guarantee patents for their products. I do lots of work for individuals and small and medium enterprises. Patents protect them from being infringed by large corporations. Sounds like you’re trying to school a highly qualified professional in something that you’ve only just googled 5 minutes ago. I see Lemmy is just like Reddit in that way.
It’s not a far more interesting question to me because ultimately it’s not going to happen. When you spend too long theorycrafting instead of just trying to think about sensible policy that’s workable in reality you end up in bubbles like this agreeing with memes written by 14 year olds who have just discovered Marx.
Nobody is “schooling” anyone, friend. You brought up IP, I attempted to engage with you because I thought you wanted to talk about it. And now you’re crying about nobody can disagree with a “highly qualified professional” and have turned a request for you to share your thoughts and experience into a confrontation.
That’s literally what I’ve been trying to do. To get you to tell me what you think sensible policy is.
I think I’m upsetting you, so I’m going to disengage now. Hope your day gets better, mate.
I did share my thoughts and you just blatantly ignored them because you didn’t consider that real people and small businesses also benefit from intellectual property laws at the expense of corporations.
Sensible policy discussions don’t begin with nodding along to oversimplified memes.