>Doug quotes Marx:
>>
>>No matter how powerful the means of production which a capitalist
>>may bring into the field, competition will make their adoption
>>general...
>
>But in those days, 1.5 centuries ago, patents were very few,
>held only by individual inventors, and barely enforcable. And the
>Devil had not yet gotten around to inventing "intellectual property"
>and "trade secrets"...
Not to mention Chinese pirates and engineers, and Indian drugmakers.
Doug