Patents

What...this...discussion...you can't be serious.

@amandajohnson We do have an idea of what happens after we abolish patents. Historical evidence shows that a lack of a patent system is far better for innovation.

Preventing plagiarism is much more important for creative works (which are handled by copyright) than it is for technology. People care a lot less about who invented what, and more about whether or not it works. We REALLY shouldn't be legally encouraging the kind of cult of personality that Steve Jobs built around himself, for example.

I think encouraging open source culture would do a much better job of protecting inventors from being exploited than any kind of patent system.

@zacqaryadamgreen Okay, I can agree to that.