When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents. RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.
Sure for RAM but holy shit why is not done for medicine?
Kinda is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license?wprov=sfla1
The issue is that the USA threatened to sanction India over issuing compulsory licenses https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/india-faces-us-sanction-threat/articleshow/30309068.cms
The Gates Foundation had strong objections to releasing the covid-19 patents. I’m sure they had some sort of rationale that wasn’t "this would set a bad precedent for M$ patents.
It is. It’s called Compulsory Licensing.
There is also an FDA Shortage list (most countries have a similar list).
A drug on that list gives the government additional powers to allow companies to work around the parents.I think this is why there has been so many “off-brand” weight loss drugs recently. Novo Nordisk had supply chain issues with semaglutide, triggering governments to allow other manufacturers
India did it.
OK, but the leak in the article seems to have been in 2016 when conditions were very different.
The RAM industry has been a cartel for decades.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/2005/212002.htm
When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents.
Except they stop selling to certain sectors because these sectors pay less. I am pretty sure that if a laptop maker ask to buy the RAM at a 50% higher price than AI companies, the RAM producer will happily sell to them.
RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.
And how do you plan to keep these alternatives from selling to the higher bidder, which will probably be a AI company ?
Oh no! RAM prices might go down! Won’t somebody think of the poor shareholders?
We need to stop them from stealing 1 corporations IP, so tech corporations can continue making monopoly money off the entire human species stolen IP!
he he nice, fuck the ram cartel
I couldn’t care less. Just make cheaper products with near or on par performance and you’re okay in my book.
Oh nooooo China will have to…wait what will they have to do?
Good. Fuck Samsung.
Good. Now also steal from Nvidia please. It would be so freaking funny!
