Originally Posted by
SlyMaelstrom
The problem I have with patenting trivial ideas is that it discourages innovation from new developers. Most new developers don't have the capital to patent their ideas before they start making money off of them. It's only worth it to lay out the money or to find financiers if you can say (or prove) with some certainty that the idea will, on its own, generate enough revenue to cover both the costs and a reasonable amount of interest on the investment. Could we say for sure that, as a stand-alone application the idea presented in the article would make money? This puts large corporations as an advantage to literal buy exclusivity and it's the reason we have so many oligopolies these days.
