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See? Patents do help foster innovation!

See? Patents do help foster innovation!

Posted May 3, 2009 13:27 UTC (Sun) by dion (subscriber, #2764)
In reply to: See? Patents do help foster innovation! by dlang
Parent article: KSM tries again

Yes, in software tons of things are being invented places where there are no software patents.

If there is any great advantage to having software patents then the US and Japan should be leading the world in software innovation.


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See? Patents do help foster innovation!

Posted May 3, 2009 14:26 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

the grandparent comment was advocating eliminating all patents, not just the ones on software.

I don't think that there is anyone who would claim that software patents are currently working correctly.

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