Published at LXer:
Good design captures the Zeitgeist, and sometimes leads the way in forming and informing popular taste. But it should not be the subject of patent or intellectual property spats, or be allowed to spread the notion that the rights to ideas and tastes or look and feel can be owned. When one company, or one technology, is allowed to lock down the market and own the way we do things, the result is ossification.
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