Oh boy, please not 2. What if this was a thing already and, since neither Newton nor Liebnitz had kids, we all had to pay some investors who bought the rights to calculus every time we took a derivative.

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Dylan16807 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You know patents only last 20 years right?

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cnr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

As long as somebody with big $ decides: "let's make it 40!"

	▲	noworld 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Aaaaasaand now Disney owns the rights to room temperature superconductivity.