A ridiculous portion of GDP is wasted on this type of hostility. Just look at how much marketing is completely unnecessary, but billions are spent on it. Look at how many companies are spending money to reinvent the wheel constantly instead of sharing code, designs, etc. Patent lawsuits. We're just scratching the surface here. It's a depressingly wasteful and hostile world.
Aye, it's tough to see it as anything but a waste too - it gets bypassed and that's it, all time, effort and money that went into it was effectively for nought.
