Patents are an evil that has only ever retarded economic progress, and made the vanishingly few fantastically wealthy at the expense of the majority.<p>Copyright - aside from the ability to say “I made this”, and the ability to prevent others from doing so - is almost as reprehensible.<p><a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht...</a>