Patents are the greatest threat to human flourishing.

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Facts.

I read "parents"๐Ÿคฃ

Information wants to be free.

Craig has a bunch of them...

My eyes read "Parents" and I thought "Man, that is dark and not very logical."

Me too. Came to say this too. ๐Ÿ˜…

I remember when I was told that the ECC point "compression" was patented. I was mindblowing to me that something like that could have a patent. It's like someone patenting the English compressor that convert "do not" in "don't ".

Yeah that's wild.

The HP one that expired just in 2018?

Even if this hadn't expired, it's plausible courts could quickly dismiss based on Alive v. CLS.

Why?

So many reasons, one is that you give the government an option to keep an invention secret.

Thought he said parents

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It's certainly one of them ๐Ÿ˜‚.

What are some of the best ways to mitigate risks?

Defensive patent pools? Others?

Just open source everything.

In the case of hardware manufacturing, I wonder how effective timestamping the hash of the discovery would be, prior to its production and subsequent reverse engineering (or full disclosure) would be in establishing prior art for defensive purpose.