Comment by inbx0

I’m happy for the author, but I feel like that blog post kind of supports parent commenter’s argument. It sounds like Slug would’ve been created even if patents were not a thing. They had their own use case for it, and that usecase alone was enough for the R&D investment. So patents did not encourage innovation in this case. In e.g. medicine, not having patents could arguably mean that companies don’t do as much R&D.