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Once again, software patents to the rescue. If the patents involved applied only to the hardware, then this would not even be a case.
by donw 15y ago
Once again, software patents to the rescue. If the patents involved applied only to the hardware, then this would not even be a case.
- runako 15y agoWouldn't this simply result in a flurry of single-purpose hardware devices that could be patented? If not, why not?
- sologoub 15y agoThat might be so, but if those devices face stiff competition from software running on relatively generic platforms, they are either going to have to be that much better or all they will become irrelevant. In either way, consumers will benefit.