Does this removal of incentive trouble you at all The public good is usually best served by healthy competition. Problems occur when r&d for an invention is ve

Does this removal of incentive trouble you at all The public good is usually best served by healthy competition. Problems occur when r&d for an invention is very costly. This is not the case for software patents. Can you point me to a software patent that is protecting something of value (in term of cost of the invention)? And, personally, no, it does not bother me. Both me and the companies I worked for would have been better off without software patents. Like the author I do believe that copyright is a very important and useful legal construct (even open source software would not exist in its current form without it).