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In general, the effort is not wasted if competition drives the products to be better and/or cheaper in the end.

Uselessly duplicated efforts due to secrecy are the problem patents were supposed to solve, btw.

I think open source software was much more effective in solving the problem of duplication, albeit a slightly different problem (not as effective with hardware). As an aside, does anyone building software these days not have quite a lot of FOSS in their tech stack? Imagine if we had to pay for Windows NT 2011 to run our containers. :)

> Imagine if we had to pay for Windows [...] to run our containers

https://aws.amazon.com/windows/resources/licensing/

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