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patents are a bigger threat to free software because we can't pay royaltiespatents are a bigger threat to free software because we can't pay royaltiesPosted Aug 6, 2004 22:32 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: patents are a bigger threat to free software because we can't pay royalties by riel Parent article: Software patents no bigger threat to Free Software than to proprietary software
That's true of the new breed of "business method" patents, which never should have been allowed, but it isn't true of most patents, which are specific enough that it's often possible to come up with an alternative approach that doesn't hit the claims.
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