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CamperBob2 • yesterday at 11:17 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

The free market where every innovation is locked up for 20 years behind patent walls? That free market?


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readthenotes1 • yesterday at 11:37 PM

People forget just how unfree free markets are.

Of course, free markets tend to become unfree without regulation they are a bit of a unicorn.

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0x4e • today at 12:22 AM

I guess you could say he was free to do what he wanted, he fucked around and found out. Had it been “unfree” he would have been backstopped a while ago.

I agree that the “invisible hand of capitalism” is ironic, but the free market is circular in and of itself creating an unfree market.

goodmythical • yesterday at 11:25 PM

The free market that chose of it's own volition to allow participants to either optionally utilize copyright or not?

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