Exactly. Regulations kill small businesses but corporations handle them easily, which is why they love regulations.

And patents are another thing that big corporations use to prevent competition. You could invent the world's most revolutionary, perfect product, and I guarantee that you will be infringing on about 15 thousand patents requiring 500 million dollars of licensing fees even though you never even heard of those patents before. And the corporations just do free patent sharing agreements with each other. So it is nothing but a corporate racket to protect each other against upstarts.

The idea of patents for upstarts is good but it's completely broken and upstarts can't afford to build the products they've invented due to all their patent infringements. Maybe initially they fly under the radar, but if they become too big, the corporations can just leaf through their patent portfolios and crush the mosquito.

Exactly. Regulations kill small businesses but corporations handle them easily, which is why they love regulations.

And patents are another thing that big corporations use to prevent competition. You could invent the world's most revolutionary, perfect product, and I guarantee that you will be infringing on about 15 thousand patents requiring 500 million dollars of licensing fees even though you never even heard of those patents before. And the corporations just do free patent sharing agreements with each other. So it is nothing but a corporate racket to protect each other against upstarts.

The idea of patents for upstarts is good but it's completely broken an dupatara can't afford to create the products they've invented due to all their patent infringements. Maybe initially they fly under the radar, but if they become too big, the corporations can just leaf through their patent portfolios and crush the mosquito.