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by against-patents 14y ago
It's a tad pessimistic, given that, say, slavery was abolished by most nations after being widespread and acceptable, in all cultures and on all continents, for thousands of years. Things end, especially if people actively try to end them.
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by against-patents 14y ago
Isn't it rather possible that the right answer for software is not like the right answer for drugs, and that it takes an expert in a particular field to propose a sensible reform (assuming one is needed in that field)? A lot of the question
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by against-patents 14y ago
Patents have a lot of "advantages" over normal publishing: investors like them, companies encourage them (as in, "if it's patented then it's a great thing for the company, if there are no patents it's not really "ours" so we're going to be
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by against-patents 14y ago
Thanks! That really is a good idea.
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by against-patents 14y ago
As pointed out by Richard Stallman at the topmost comment about EFF's proposal to shorten the patent term for software patents to 5 years, it might actually be easier to entirely abolish software patents because of a requirement by WTO to h
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by against-patents 14y ago
If you're a designated inventor of a patent or a patent application who opposes patents, you could publicly state your support for patent abolition at the Inventors Against Patents site: http://inventors-against-patents.org (A site operat
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