Geen uitvinding vernoemd naar de echte uitvinder

Weer wat nieuws geleerd vandaag, 'Stigler's Law'. Ik kan me eindeloos blijven opwinden over de destructiviteit van het merkenrecht, patent en octrooisysteem, maar gelukkig ben ik niet de enige;-)

"Gladwell uses this to talk up what Myhrvold is doing, suggesting that Intellectual Ventures is really about continuing that process, getting those ideas out there -- but he misses the much bigger point: if these ideas are the natural progression, almost guaranteed to be discovered by someone sooner or later, why do we give a monopoly on these ideas to a single discoverer? Myhrvold's whole business model is about monopolizing all of these ideas and charging others (who may have discovered them totally independently) to actually do something with them. Yet, if Gladwell's premise is correct (and there's plenty of evidence included in the article), then Myhrvold's efforts shouldn't be seen as a big deal. After all, if it wasn't Myhrvold and his friends doing it, others would very likely come up with the same thing sooner or later."