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Originally Posted by Ekaros
On other hand if someone comes up with something which saves thousands of man years it's their, doesn't help anyone else... It's a good thing we aren't inventing cars now, just think how complicated those would be...
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First, why should somebody give away the fruit of their labor and creativity?
Second, we *are* inventing cars now:
Have you heard of TESLA MOTORS? Elon Musk is inventing commercially viable electric cars using the internet-derived software-development methodologies of silicon valley. And he's licensed his technologies to TOYOTA (For the 2013 electric RAV4) and DAIMLER-BENZ. Nothing complicated involved.
http://www.windingroad.com/articles/...tesla-model-s/
A bit closer to you, FISKER is building a super-luxury hybrid-electric automobile unlike anything that came before.
http://www.windingroad.com/articles/...-fisker-karma/
Patents and copyrights don't get in the way of honest R&D or original developers, they only get in the way of freeloaders, ripoff artists, and plagiarists. None of which are adding meaningful to the sum total of human existence.
Specific patents can and should be challenged but valid patents need to be honored no matter how they might "inconvenience" those incapable of original work. In this case, the jury found the patents valid; until the appeals court says otherwise, they need to be respected.