alt Hacker News> If you make patents illegal, no one will breed new stuff. How does that help?
There would still be public, industry-group and philanthropic research. But yes, probably much less.
> If you make patents illegal, no one will breed new stuff. How does that help?
There would still be public, industry-group and philanthropic research. But yes, probably much less.
And there still is today. But are they producing good nectarines? Apparently not as good as these.
I know that occasionally philanthropic research works out, but generally I find that people are motivated by profit.