The Reich op-ed is good but also a bit... hmmm. Weird to call out IP specifically and then completely miss the point.
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Likely because thorny issues around copyright law policy, lobbying, and corruption don't really support a "tech companies bad" narrative
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And then he mentions ebook sales and monopolies, but without mention of DRM / 1201.
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Perhaps the truth of it is that the monopolies we see in tech are aided by laws bought by a previous, still-active generation of monopolists
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and actually, that large IP lawsuits levied against technology companies have a significant chill on smaller entrants in the marketplace
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and I'm just talking about IP here because it's my wheelhouse. I also wonder to what extent the rise of Amazon is reliant on previous steps
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Would I still be inclined to order toilet paper off Amazon if it weren't that there's only *really* 3 manufacturers of toilet paper
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2 of which are owned by the Koch brothers, with the 1 remaining owned by Satan AND the Koch brothers
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@sarahjeong right, but aside from a few companies (Oracle), the overwhelming majority of big tech hates patents. -
@chrisFnicholson unless they're the ones with the patents. See, e.g. Apple. -
@sarahjeong Apple/Google use patents to avoid countersuits over infrastructure technologies. Save Samsung, they virtually never sue others. -
@chrisFnicholson lol that's quite an interesting spin -
@chrisFnicholson Google has been very dedicated to patent reform. But Google is not the tech industry at large. -
@sarahjeong The overwhelming majority (by market cap) of “big tech” is dedicated to patent reform. -
@sarahjeong because the best companies protect incumbency by innovating. They know moore’s law will beat them if they don’t keep up. -
@sarahjeong Save for a couple (Oracle and a few others) patents are simply bad business.
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