Re: Lisp is Sin

Eli Gottlieb wrote:


> Great, so when yo u invent the Warp Drive Ford/Microsoft/IBM can just
> copy your design, sell their versions at a loss (Walmart does this all
> the time to gain market dominance), and put you out of business. Then
> when you're out of business, they're on a gravy train.

That's perhaps an argument for considering rewarding inventors over and
above the free market, not an argument that patent monopolies in
particular should exist. And anyway, the obvious startup-favoring
market distortion to apply in that situation would be
anti-price-dumping and/or anti-cross-subsidisation laws (laws which
already exist in most Western legal systems, BTW, but which are
haphazardly and capriciously applied).



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