How does this "respect" account for independent invention?
Many things (telegraph, telephone, Tee Vee, automobiles, Knuth-Morris-Pratt pattern matching) are invented nearly simultaneously by several inventors. If "intellectual property" is property, how can more than 1 person own it?
If you don't account for independent invention, your "respect" is fake, and doesn't take into account the labor of the independent inventor.
Many things (telegraph, telephone, Tee Vee, automobiles, Knuth-Morris-Pratt pattern matching) are invented nearly simultaneously by several inventors. If "intellectual property" is property, how can more than 1 person own it?
If you don't account for independent invention, your "respect" is fake, and doesn't take into account the labor of the independent inventor.