Didn't Gibson profited enough from their
acquired IP? Surely they have to compete at some point and not just own idea forever doing nothing but moving shareholders property.
Most importantly, engineers and idea-makers behind original solution made more than enough profit since CakeWalk and Oberheim were produced. Poor Gibson can't buy right IP at the right time so they can do nothing and not make anything new - who cares.
>some of them might risk it for some new idea that if not received well bankrupts them personally
Owning IP exclusively forever doesn't change this at all. If IP is good then you can defend it for a some time to make profit on edge.
>It's happening all the time
Not with synthesizers/software/ee developers because of IP expiring too soon.
>now imagine getting a perfect clone maker to the mix, selling "legends" for cheap that might be good enough for 90% of users;
Imagine what all these people could do now! They could produce new innovative things.
Imagine Gibson was shit and would make shit new software that would cost as much as possible and own IP forever. That's easy to imagine because IP rights holders pushing hard for this change. That's sucks for everyone but Gibson since they get $ doing nothing. They cn also easily fire anyone involved in this innovation and prevent them from working with anything similar.
