• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So is it stealing when Google buys the patents from small inventors and says it’s theirs?

    No. It’s monopolization.

    Was it stealing when Thomas Jefferson stole his slave’s ice cream recipe and said it was his?

    No. It’s slavery.