Little Youtube bitching with a woke haemorrhoids thinker:

@f1hotrod527 :

Why open source is good? You mean where lots of people put their talent and time into something and then a Chinese company uses their work to make lots of money and the people who created it get nothing? Yeah open source is awesome. Instead of illegal IP theft the Chinese companies get to use legal IP theft. Funny watching those same Chinese companies lock down everything they create and then laugh at the open source community.

@ me in reply to him:

Open source is good because it allows us, the open source creators, to give you, the users, programs, machines, concepts and systems that in the proprietary world cost millions that you never ever in your life time will have, neither will we have so we can mass produce it for you, so we both lose in that business model; and we do that for pennies or for free most of times.

That is how you can now have a 3D printer for less than 1% of the same machine was sold by Stratasys and their proprietary type of business.

I know the Chinese are making a steal using our work without direct compensation to us, but we do have indirect compensation, we live to see our design and development mass produced by them for cheap for you; despite Stratsys.

reply @mykethevet:

to @f1hotrod527; Lmao you just got destroyed

My conclusions on the theme:

• I used to patent jut to realise that patenting does not protect the inventor but the corporations stealing from the inventors, in the end it was my work bought for pennies that made them billions and I was awarded nothing or mere peanuts. Patenting is expensive and if you do not have a big budget behind you to manufacture at scale you soon lose money.

• Open source is like patenting, it establishes a prior art on my work so nobody else can patent it ever, so that is like Patenting (where if you do not pay the annual fee becomes public domain but nobody can patent it any-more because is prior art) just without spending the time and money to patent it.

• same level of protection, nobody can patent it any more, but anybody can replicate it at will, is prior art, unprotected from replication but protected from intellectual theft by patenting my work by corporations that live out of stealing my work legally, unlike the Chinese that live out or stealing my works without also threatening me with jail-time if I dare protesting up.

Indeed, I found out the gpl v3 can somehow do this work up to a point.

But for poor people is better than spending money on patents that do not protect them from lawyers with big pay-check anyway. And a corporation would rather spend 10 millions on lawyers to destroy you and steal your work to make billions than awarding you 2 millions to sell them your work.