I think 3d printers would be the best example.
patents where invented to protect trade secrets with the result of making them public being an unavoidable consequence. I didn't mean to make it sound like I agree with intellectual property of any kind just to say there are good reasons and good outcomes. The internet doesn't tend to be the place to discuss nuance however.
there can be a very good case made for putting private innovation into the public realm after a period of legal protections, (typically 20 years for most places)
but anything that is public by it's very nature should never be subject to patents
monopoly is the end state of competition. we need to stop pretending the system will do anything else.
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The way I'm handling it is I currently dual boot with 2 separate hard drives. Linux is primary boot. there is no bootloader, I used the bios boot selector to load windows. Windows typically fucks up boot loaders or shared partitions so I have neither. I hope to have found a good distro that does everything I need by the time windows dies,
it's fine, raid0 is a backup right?
this is the only true answer.
like making backups only when the disk starts clicking.
I'll get my alarm clock
'member checks and balances? America sure doesn't.
Xitter
X as in Xi
so ~~Winnie the Poo~~ Shitter
So that's what Lenin actually meant when he asked "What is to be done?"
what are we competing over? what happens when someone wins the competition?