alt Hacker NewsNow think about how often the patent system has stifled and stalled and delayed advancement for decades per innovation at a time.
Where would we be if patents never existed?
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cma • yesterday at 9:31 PM
To be fair, Google has a patent on the transformer architecture. Their page rank patent monopoly probably helped fund the R&D.
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Who knows? If we’d never moved on from trade secrets to patents, we might be a hundred years behind.