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This is about software. Companies patent software just to have legal ammunition to fight other companies that patent software. # of patents in software is not
by nottorp 2y ago
This is about software.
Companies patent software just to have legal ammunition to fight other companies that patent software.
# of patents in software is not a measure of innovation but of how litigious the business environment is.
> Helicopter money by supplying large amounts of funds
How about "helicopter money" for any EU cloud provider that develops tools to migrate data out of the big US providers?
After all, no matter which US cloud provider you choose, you're locked in even wrt to other US cloud providers.
- raxxorraxor 2y agoPatens aren't a good indicator for software, but it can be a metric for the ability to innovate. And this probably can be applied to software, not the patents themselves. Capital collected by the state is just so much less effective.