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Comment by edot

9 hours ago

Oh boy, please not 2. What if this was a thing already and, since neither Newton nor Liebnitz had kids, we all had to pay some investors who bought the rights to calculus every time we took a derivative.

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Dylan16807  9 hours ago

You know patents only last 20 years right?

  • cnr  9 hours ago

    As long as somebody with big $ decides: "let's make it 40!"

    • noworld  7 hours ago

      Aaaaasaand now Disney owns the rights to room temperature superconductivity.

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