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In article <PCG.91Aug18210217@aberda.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>My favourite solution would be, instead of granting the inventor
>esclusive *manufacturing* rights, granting him exclusive *royalty*
...
>The royalty would be by default something like 3-5% (which is little for
>a new product, where profit margins can be supposed to be something like

3 to 5% of what?  If I'm selling a workstation, what's the royalty I
pay for the xor cursor?

Of course currently people can and do do this with patents.  But I
can't imagine a fair way of legislating that they must, since any such
legislation would have to include an amount, and there's no fair way
of determining that other than a case by case evaulation.  If that weren't
the case, I agree, it's a tempting thing to do.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.