• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    No patents ensures that if an individual does invent something, only corporations can profit off it because they can just put the inventor out of business by undercutting, rather than having to pay the inventor.

    Unfortunately, they do protect corporations more than individual inventors purely because corporations have more R&D budget.

    • ZephyrXero@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Seems like the solution is to only allow individuals to apply for patents, and organizations and their proxies may not