Comment by Sakos
3 years ago
A stable job with great pay and the freedom to work on tough problems without having to worry about funding? Yeah, I'd love to be in that position. If you want the fruits of that labour to not be monopolized, then it needs to be regulated.
I stand corrected and am updating my understanding.Thanks!
One more comment from someone else. IP does not last forever. Specifically patents only last for 20 years. So whatever you discover for your employer, the whole humanity gets profit from, just later.
If the alternative is that the same thing does not get discovered at all, or 30 years later, then the tradeoff is good.