Comment by brador
15 hours ago
Now 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?
15 hours ago
Now 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?
Who knows? If we’d never moved on from trade secrets to patents, we might be a hundred years behind.
To be fair, Google has a patent on the transformer architecture. Their page rank patent monopoly probably helped fund the R&D.
They also had a patent on map/reduce.