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Software patents should require the source of the implementation to be published. That's the whole idea behind patents in the first place.
by swiley 5y ago
Software patents should require the source of the implementation to be published. That's the whole idea behind patents in the first place.
- joycian 5y agoExactly, you give the government a way to replicate your insight, in return you get x years of monopoly. With the first part being non-existent (didn't inventors even have to supply physical prototypes etc.?) the patent system is easy to abuse.