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Did that "improvement" really improve the lives of anyone else than you and the people owning that bank? Should it really be something that the government encou

• cloudjacker 10y ago
  the government encourages people to not duplicate effort, the purpose of patents is to encourage people to disclose an invention so that other people don't reinvent the wheel, the incentive being that you get a monopoly on the wheel for a limited time software of course iterates much faster than other inventions, meaning a 19 year monopoly can really stifle the industry thats the only debate on patents, software applicability