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I think I would agree with software patents if it meant a company had to publish all related source code and submit it to the public domain.
by jobu 14y ago
I think I would agree with software patents if it meant a company had to publish all related source code and submit it to the public domain.
- CamperBob2 14y agoWhat'd be the point in that? The problem with software patents is that no matter how clever you think the code you just wrote is, whatever you just wrote will later seem obvious to someone else. Software patents are all about owning ideas, and that's wrong.
- njharman 14y agoSpread of knowledge, science, and engineering. Patents have much shorter (infinite if congress continues to extend) durations than copyright.