u-Bob

Are you saying you are pro-patent law? Don't tell me you believe patents protect inventions or encourage creativity... They don't. Patents don't protect anything. When you have a patent for a certain technique, it means you can use the force of the State to stop other people from using that technique. Even if they came up with that technique all by themselves... even if they've been using that technique in secret for over 20 years....

Patents (letters patente) started out as a way for Kings to make money. They would sell special monopoly rights (those letters patente) to the highest bidder. The buyer/owner of such an open letter could then use it as a permit to use violence against his competitors.

In all of human history there isn't one single example of how patent law would have encouraged creativity.

On the contrary... At one time the Netherlands and Switzerland didn't have a patent system, while the rest of the west did have one. The Netherlands and Switzerland both flourished.

Paul, you seem to think that without government interference/intervention, there would be total chaos... that it would be a dog-eat-dog, law of the jungle out there.

The opposite is true. The opposite of government interference is not chaos, but voluntary association. Voluntary association = People who respect each others's property rights and voluntary engage in trade and commerce. It also means people have the right to defend themselves and their property when someone violates their property rights (by damaging property, stealing property or engaging in an act of fraud).

Government Interference = The law of the jungle. Government Interference = A big gang with a lot of guns forcing their will onto people who just happen to be living within certain artificial borders.

I'd still be doing what I do now: creating and delivering products and services other people are willing to pay for.