Re: Where would we be without these important patents?

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:16:52 -0000, "Andy F." <never.mind@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:27:59 -0000, "Andy F." <never.mind@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The fact is that before patents, technological
progress was very slow for centuries.

Nope. In fact, technological progress was roughly proportional to
total economic production and the level of scientific knowledge both
before _and_after_ patents. The publication of Newton's Principia had
far more impact on technological progress than patent privileges.

A fact which destroys the argument you
were trying to make.

No, of course it doesn't, because in the first place it is not true,
and in the second place even if it were true, it would be nothing but
a post hoc fallacy.

So the Middle Ages were a period of rapid technological growth. Right.

The period just before patents were introduced was not the Middle
Ages. It was (depending on which countries you are talking about) the
Renaissance and/or Enlightenment, both periods of very rapid
technological growth compared to the prevailing historical standard of
the classical and medieval periods.

You are destroyed.

-- Roy L
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