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Patents help pay for research and keeps a lot of smart and hard working tech people employed. Stop bad mouthing it as though you are losing one of your God given rights. There are surely issues with greedy companies doing greedy things with it. But then there are issues with everything... like greedy Ad companies selling your profiles and collecting more data in the name of AI.

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> Patents help pay for research and keeps a lot of smart and hard working tech people employed.

Maybe when used correctly. In the tech space, it seems like they hardly are, anymore.

Software patents are bad and should be abolished.

A good patent brings us a more competitive solution to a problem than we otherwise would have had. A bad patent is a land grab, a punitive unearned tax on the entire problem, and those have been getting worse.

Not sure why you are downvoted, ( may be because of the tone and languages used ). But people from the academics, and companies do spend a lot of money on R&D in video encoding. These patents are not those silly one click web purchase patents, there are lots of thoughts, experiment into it. I would have thought anyone who has been to Uni / College would know this, after all it is part of how University gets funding these days.

The problem is price. What should these patents cost.

"How dare you criticize X when there are starving children in the world!"

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