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minus-squarefacow [he/him, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 months agoAlso “stealing” tech is just kind of how countries develop. It was explicit US policy to steal European patents during industrialization. There’s no reason there should be a global monopoly on some idea
minus-squareWheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoApparently it was one of the big Freedoms™ people would point to in the 19th century. “What makes America so free? Why, you can manufacture what you like, print and sell anything! Copyright? Patent? Sheer humbugery!”
Also “stealing” tech is just kind of how countries develop. It was explicit US policy to steal European patents during industrialization. There’s no reason there should be a global monopoly on some idea
Apparently it was one of the big Freedoms™ people would point to in the 19th century.
“What makes America so free? Why, you can manufacture what you like, print and sell anything! Copyright? Patent? Sheer humbugery!”