[gurps] Treaty on Public Utilities and life support devices

[Bira]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Michael Stork <mstork5 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Tom Sparks wrote:
>>
>> I am not for a government organization
>> but i dont want for-profit Privatization of the resources
>> and no patent on the technology
>
> If there are no patents, then what incentive does anyone have to do
> anything? If you spend your time/energy/money developing a product/idea/etc,
> and someone else can legally steal it the instant it hits the market, what
> exactly was the point?

You speak as if everyone has access to instant matter duplicators :).

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