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Patent Armageddon is a GOOD thing!

• sorbus 16y ago
  If you object to software patents, then it's a good thing - but only when it's over. During Patent Armageddon, software is going to suck. There will be injunctions on the import and sale of all sorts of products (read: you won't be able to buy shiny new technology, or perhaps even old technology), technological progress will slow down, and being a start up will suck because it will be incredibly beneficial for companies to sue start-ups to build up precedent for their patents. (Note that if this doesn't happen - if there isn't an epic battle over patents - it isn't Armageddon, it's just an apocalypse, being the wide-spread revelation that software patents are horrible things). Yes, there will be reform, probably large-scale reform. However, it won't come until things get rather bad.
• CamperBob 16y ago
  Patent Armageddon already happened, back in the days when radio technology was being developed at a pace that makes the software industry's progress look slow and boring. The lawyers won, as usual. They'll win this time, too.