• JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
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    25 days ago

    When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents. RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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      25 days ago

      So patents are stopping the whole market competition thing, like what how capitalism is supposed to work and all that.

      • Amju Wolf@pawb.social
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        25 days ago

        There should be a ceiling with patents, where if you make 10x back of what it cost your r&d (or whatever 5x of your yearly revenue), the patent should just be considered expired no matter how much time passed.

        It should never be an infinite source of money.

        • frongt@lemmy.zip
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          25 days ago

          Seems like a good idea, but would probably just result in Hollywood accounting so that they never actually make any profit on paper.