The US-led imaginary property system was at least administered in mostly good faith, encouraging actual competition amongst the administrative class benefiting from it. And it still produced endless make-litigation garbage like "Method and Apparatus for Banging Two Rocks Together... Near a Computer"
Whereas now this system has expanded to a different center of power with different strategic goals, quite content to operate closer to the barer reality (aka hack). And when a document can create a claim of legal claim of ownership over the ways everyone else can do things, the fundamental incentive is just to generate as many of those documents as possible.
Whereas now this system has expanded to a different center of power with different strategic goals, quite content to operate closer to the barer reality (aka hack). And when a document can create a claim of legal claim of ownership over the ways everyone else can do things, the fundamental incentive is just to generate as many of those documents as possible.