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That seems like an unrealistic goal. There are many arguments in favor of patent systems and a motion for repeal would face insurmountable opposition. I suspect
by snprbob86 17y ago
That seems like an unrealistic goal. There are many arguments in favor of patent systems and a motion for repeal would face insurmountable opposition. I suspect this to be particularly true of non-software industries.
The design processes that would go into the development of a global patent system would likely re-examine and re-evaluate the principals, successes, and failures of many existing patent systems around the world. In all likelihood, the resulting system would be sufficiently less painful to justify tolerating the inherent problems with patent systems for many more years to come.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoMaybe the post got edited, but you're replying to a suggestion to repeal only "software patents". This is not impossible, indeed many places don't even have them in the first place.
- snprbob86 17y agoscratches head I don't recall it saying "software" before, but I don't want to throw around acusations of edits. I really wish there was a "history" link next to edited posts.
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- JulianMorrison 17y agoDidn't edited posts used to have an asterisk? I'll edit this one to see. Anyhow, software patents was what I remember typing in the above. MS would have no interest in opposing hardware patents.