Genuinely curious: what do you think would be some other practical, achievable ways of ensuring that the people at a company like ARM get compensated for their work without "putting the force of the state behind their 'thought-property'"?
We actually have a bunch of examples since there are many industries which don't have the ability to obtain copyright monopolies or patents (or either).
People are making money today doing creating intellectual products without the benefit of copyrights and patents, and they're some of the highest margin industries out there.
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