patentologist

He hasn't been voted into anything yet. He's a candidate, and he'll probably get around 2% of the vote (most of which are people protesting that all the other candidates in the race are complete shit).

The State Department creates even worse messes. Who do you think insisted that Iraq couldn't be broken up into three regions?

Ah, generating a bubble stream to reduce drag.

Not really, that's a pretty shallow question.

Patents ARE "releasing it to the world" -- with a LIMITED time during which the investor can recoup R&D costs and make some profit for his hard work, for example by licensing the technology to anyone who wants to pay for it, or by releasing products himself. Meanwhile, the information is out there for others to learn by and improve upon.

Trade secrets are "not releasing it to the world", but instead locking it up and making a profit off it forever (or as long as the secret can be kept).

What you're apparently looking for is "being a socialist free-riding twatwaffle", which seems to be popular nowadays among the illiterati who want their toys immediately and for free while leaving cutting-edge researchers penniless and starving.

Not really, there's just one party with two branches. One trades the other a few yes votes on a mass surveillance program in exchange for a few votes on a program requiring ISPs to monitor every user's downloads. In the end, "the people" are the ones who lose every time.