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While I agree with you about patents being the problem, I'm not sure that moving past patents entirely is the solution. Can you think of a better way to fairly

• majewsky 9y ago
  I think the main problem with patents is their duration. 20 years is absurdly long for the software space. It may be justified for physical objects since making a hardware patent into a marketable product usually requires more investment and time to get to market (e.g. to design and build a factory producing the product), but in software, a 20-year-old product is usually already on display in some museum. If I had to make a change to software patents right now, I would shorten them to five years. Maybe less.