My blog posting doesn't deny their contributions at this stage and more recently. But if politicians talk about how to incentivize and protect innovation, the assumption is that the original innovators as well as those (often the same ones) taking the initial risk of market adoption have to be incentivized with strong intellectual property rights.
Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses
Posted Oct 1, 2010 7:20 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
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> But if politicians talk about how to incentivize and protect innovation, the assumption is that the original innovators as well as those (often the same ones) taking the initial risk of market adoption have to be incentivized with strong intellectual property rights.
You are definitely right about that. It is an assumption.