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I'm sorry, I'm really not following the chain of events you're proposing. You're saying companies would choose not to release profitable software, if it weren't

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > You're saying companies would choose not to release profitable software, if it weren't also covered by software patents? Yes, keeping software in house and selling services around itbinstead of releasing software has been a popular option as long as software has existed, and changing the IP landscape (or any other part of the legal and business context) in a way which changes the relative incentives between those options changes the frequency at which one option is chosen over the other. And that's even before considering the way that changing the IP landscape impacts the decision of whether it is worthwhile to develop software for a given market at all.