The biggest annoyance is that patents doesn’t prevent usage… Just require permission… they could ask anything or nothing, it just would need to be acceptable. And well here we are.
Why rely on someone else’s go-ahead if you can just do something different? They didn’t patent it for no reason - they want a cut if someone using it makes a bunch of money, and likely won’t give you the go-ahead without that guarantee.
The biggest annoyance is that patents doesn’t prevent usage… Just require permission… they could ask anything or nothing, it just would need to be acceptable. And well here we are.
Why rely on someone else’s go-ahead if you can just do something different? They didn’t patent it for no reason - they want a cut if someone using it makes a bunch of money, and likely won’t give you the go-ahead without that guarantee.