Tim Connors <[email protected]>
writes:

> Some people might want to respond to the one sided article here:
> https://theconversation.com/grants-arent-helping-australian-tech-but-patent-reform-could-30254

IMO Macaulay's observation on copyright applies equally to patents, viz.

| Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to
| the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is
| necessary for the purpose of securing the good.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_(Macaulay)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Second_Speech_on_Copyright_Law

Patents are limited monopolies granted in exchange for publication of
what would otherwise remain trade secrets.

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