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I understand that R&D costs money and individuals and companies that invest in new ideas and technology deserve an opportunity to recoup their investment and earn a profit.
However, I strongly believe that the duration of patents and other limits to use of new ideas need to be shortened significantly not further entrenched.
We shouldn't be hoarding good ideas for individual gain, we should be opensourcing them for continuous development and improvement.
We should never allow a good idea to be purchased and shelved by wealthy interests in order to maintain monopoly control over an industry.
There are plenty of tech companies that manage to be extremely profitable developing, utilizing and repackaging opensource software and it's well past time for the energy, transportation, agriculture, and drug companies to adopt an open model.
So I for one think international "trade" agreements need to pry open "intellectual property" restrictions rather than strengthen them.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)help of our government, sadly.
They will never have enough. They won't stop. Like all addicts, there will either have to be an intervention, or they will collapse the world's economies AGAIN, as they did before.
The people have no power. Our Reps, not all of them of course, but enough to make all this possible, do not represent us, they have been bought, money well spent by the money hoarders.
I agree with you, but were are just peasants now in this Global World, ignorant, we are told by the president we helped elect, of the facts.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)"when all the brokenhearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be."