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It means that, instead of incremental improvements on an idea, these can now be limited to 20 years per step.
by HPsquared 4y ago
It means that, instead of incremental improvements on an idea, these can now be limited to 20 years per step.
- zmmmmm 4y agoWhich is an excellent point because it may have been reasonable when the patent system was created and for hard objects because there were natural limits on how fast innovation could happen. But software is literally only limited by our minds. Slowing down innovation to a 20 year cycle is devastating to the pace at which it can happen.