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   Danie van der Merwe (danie10@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:17:34 JST Danie van der Merwe

   The founder of a main Google rival says there’s such a stranglehold over search that it only has 2.5% of the market

   Having lots of money to pay to be the default search engine on many devices, does make it a bit difficult for good competition...

   See https://fortune.com/2023/09/21/google-antitrust-trial-search-dominance-duckduckgo-taylor-swift-travis-kelce/

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:22:23 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     When #patents become a chokehold on scientific, technological, or (inter)national economic development, they should either be voided or reduced to such an extent, that they only generate a negligible revenue stream from a macroeconomic perspective.

     With regard to the climate catastrophe, humanity we have no efficiency gains to waste.
     Climate change is irreversible. Each ton of CO2 reduction counts.

     Patents should only provide an incentive for development is as far as they..

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 07:23:33 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     ...provide a GOOD ROI but not generate millionaires or even billionaires.

     In other words, free enterprise must be limited with regard to royalty payments, in order for most of humanity to survive.

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     Danie van der Merwe (danie10@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 18:11:17 JST Danie van der Merwe

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     @HistoPol it was not really about patents. It's about using masses of money to gain an unfair advantages, not based at all on the merits of the product or service. How free is it whena super rich company can pay to lobby politicians to favour their businesss over another business who can't afford that. That kills off good free products.