Look into patent trolls. Patents are bad, publicly funded research is always better, but it doesn't prevent people from spending money to do research, but it doesn't entitle them for the profits.

I'm not advocating FOR communism, I'm just trying to dispel myths.

Socialism is soluble with capitalism.

[–] jmshrv@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never brought any innovation? VP9, AV1, zstd, GraphQL, React, and many more were made/contributed to by Google/Facebook specifically to improve those services. We benefit from this as they release these programs/formats.

[–] hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Programs and format are not research. Nothing new was invented, they're just alternative to existing things.

[–] jmshrv@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

They're improvements on existing things, which is the basis for pretty much all research. A nuclear reactor is just an "alternative" to a coal power plant, but I'm sure everyone here would agree that the nuclear power plant is better. In the case of the video formats, image/video processing is literally part of computer science.

In the case of React, you could follow the breadcrumbs back to JavaScript, created by a capitalistic company.