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mk · 4796 days ago · link · · parent · post: "the Web would have been better if it was patented and its users had to pay license fees"
...in which the burden for the innovation of the world wide web had been shared across the whole user community in a very fair and reasonable manner, with a modest contribution for everyone for this wonderful innovation
This is a disturbing logic. It seems that he feels that things of value are improved if they come with a price for all to be paid to whoever can claim to have thought of it. -That isn't the motivation behind IP. The intent of IP is to stimulate innovation. Paying for innovation is the means to stimulate it; the payment is not the ends. Actually, if we could better stimulate innovation without an IP cost, we would have greatly improved the system. This guy has the cart in front of the horse. Pretty scary considering his position.