> Society doesn't have to guarantee anybody a market share if their products are inferior. Of course not. But it remains true that your original argument doesn

> Society doesn't have to guarantee anybody a market share if their products are inferior. Of course not. But it remains true that your original argument doesn't work here. I imagine you're generally against software patents. So am I. But don't hold up VisiCalc as a poster child for software development without patents, because in the long run it was very much a failure as a product, and the company that sold it went broke, while this might not have happened had they patented it.