āEntrepreneurs are heroes in our society. They fail for the rest of us.ā
I am a Rothbard Capitalist 
āIP nonsense, jealousy, fearā
Is that your experience, or academic?
Iāve filed patents resulting in life improving benefits which may/should/hope continue long after Iām dead. While geneticists conflated effect with knowledge, I got scars, worked hard, and made stuff
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Iāve also lived and worked with la gauche caviar, champagne socialists all my life, and not a single one lived the style of life they advocated for others; a few relished the contradiction, but most couldnāt āseeā their hypocrisy
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The U.S. patent system is just a tool. A gun is just a tool. People use our patent system for bad and good. People use guns for bad and good. Hereās the point: If you want to win, you have to play the cards your dealt, and by the rules of the system. Iāve never filed a patent out of jealousy or fear. Success is not the product of emotions, much less negative ones. In a thousand years, Iām likely dead
, but Iāll sleep well knowing I did my best. I worked hard at winning.
The situation with Charles is straightforward wrt Cardanoās intellectual property - the intellectual property you and I have paid for. Itās not in his best interest to protect it, so why would he? His long term opportunities as an entrepreneur, are increased an order of magnitude by the distribution of Cardanoās intellectual property to various other development concerns who, of course, then initiate filing to protect, under their own title. This has already taken place, by the way.
Hereās another slightly risquĆ© but humorous and true Taleb quote:
"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thingā