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comments like this really make me smh. what's wrong with some lucky people getting rich off of this? you do realize they financed that research for the past 20

comments like this really make me smh. what's wrong with some lucky people getting rich off of this? you do realize they financed that research for the past 20 years, and if it's actually an investment group instead of a few passionate individuals I can guarantee you they also financed a shitload of other endeavours that went nowhere and ate the losses, lol. you could do the same, get together with a group of other people and invest in something using your disposable software eng income (maybe you already are). or you could just complain when someone else takes the risk and reaps the rewards because you apparently have no concept of things like jealousy, envy, or basic economics lol.

mort96 3y ago
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- jtbayly 3y ago
  They literally couldn’t get rich if they kept it out of everybody else’s hands.
  - mort96 3y ago
    Sure they could? That's a common way people get rich off of patents; make a product which uses your new innovation, sell that product, use the patent to prevent everyone else from using the innovation to make competing products. I believe that's more or less the history of e-ink, among other things.
    - vel0city 3y ago
      > sell that product But if they're keeping it out of everyone's hands, who are they selling it to? Aliens?
      - mort96 3y ago
        They'd be selling to humans of course? Humans who wouldn't be allowed to use the discovery of room temperature superconductors for anything other than whatever little gimmick the company found out they could sell.
    - braunboffel 3y ago
      > use the patent to prevent everyone else > the history of e-ink Could you give everyone here some verifiable data? Please identify what patent you're talking about. I hope I will get a genuine response from someone who genuinely knows that industry because the last time I asked I just got a patents.google.com/search?q=eink response. It is fun to blame patents. But that's like saying we're not making progress in operating systems because Microsoft owns a key patent in operating systems.

mort96 3y ago

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jtbayly 3y ago
They literally couldn’t get rich if they kept it out of everybody else’s hands.
- mort96 3y ago
  Sure they could? That's a common way people get rich off of patents; make a product which uses your new innovation, sell that product, use the patent to prevent everyone else from using the innovation to make competing products. I believe that's more or less the history of e-ink, among other things.
  - vel0city 3y ago
    > sell that product But if they're keeping it out of everyone's hands, who are they selling it to? Aliens?
    - mort96 3y ago
      They'd be selling to humans of course? Humans who wouldn't be allowed to use the discovery of room temperature superconductors for anything other than whatever little gimmick the company found out they could sell.
  - braunboffel 3y ago
    > use the patent to prevent everyone else > the history of e-ink Could you give everyone here some verifiable data? Please identify what patent you're talking about. I hope I will get a genuine response from someone who genuinely knows that industry because the last time I asked I just got a patents.google.com/search?q=eink response. It is fun to blame patents. But that's like saying we're not making progress in operating systems because Microsoft owns a key patent in operating systems.