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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 02:20 PM EDT |
No, we don't need a'new thing', we don't 'need' software
patents AT ALL. Copyrights give recourse to those whose
source code, novel, treatise, or song, were COPIED and
distributed, without compensation, by another. You can't
copyright a title, a plot, a fact, even the chord
progression
of an entire song. These are reasonable restrictions.
Copyright protects the _source code_. It's good enough.
You are talking about protecting IDEAS. Surely you're not
serious.
Albert The Unregistered
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 02:53 PM EDT |
The very idea of being able to "own" a monopoly on an idea, is
regressive and harmful.
Ideas need to be free. We will get much more innovation and economic stimulus
by simply COMPLETELY GETTING RID OF software patents, than we will ever get by
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| Authored by: Wol on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 05:29 PM EDT |
Your "paper with the software on it" is a mathematical proof.
That's all a program in its written form is, a mathematical proof. The computer
then executes that proof for you.
Cheers,
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