| ▲ | CamperBob2 2 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The free market where every innovation is locked up for 20 years behind patent walls? That free market? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | readthenotes1 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
People forget just how unfree free markets are. Of course, free markets tend to become unfree without regulation they are a bit of a unicorn. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | 0x4e 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
I guess you could say he was free to do what he wanted, he fucked around and found out. Had it been “unfree” he would have been backstopped a while ago. I agree that the “invisible hand of capitalism” is ironic, but the free market is circular in and of itself creating an unfree market. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | goodmythical an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The free market that chose of it's own volition to allow participants to either optionally utilize copyright or not? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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