The idea that someone can come up with a solution:
- prevent anyone else henceforth from using it without paying them,
- enforce that by force and using taxpayer money,
- stretching over political boundaries,
- not even giving the remotest fair chance to the unborn to ever come up with that solution,
- charge a price fixed by whatever whims tickle that person's fancy and deny others of a possibly cheaper solution
- just to protect a possibly overvalued idea
.. is extremely horrifying to me.
Please refer this earlier post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4591253
The idea that someone can come up with a solution:
- prevent anyone else henceforth from using it without paying them,
- enforce that by force and using taxpayer money,
- stretching over political boundaries,
- not even giving the remotest fair chance to the unborn to ever come up with that solution,
- charge a price fixed by whatever whims tickle that person's fancy and deny others of a possibly cheaper solution
- just to protect a possibly overvalued idea
.. is extremely horrifying to me.
Please refer this earlier post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4591253