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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 07:30 AM EDT |
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Good patents should exist to protect ideas and encourage innovation, both in and
out of the software world. However the current tendency for bad patents to be
approved skews this and makes patents a damper on independent innovation.
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But software patents DONT "protect ideas and encourage innovation".
And this ISN'T simply a problem with a few "bad patents" as you are
making it out to be. It is a much more fundamental problem to the extent that
there is no way that the system can be "fixed". The entire concept of
patents is fatally flawed when it comes to software because monopolies are ideas
are completely incompatible with the way that software innovation actually
proceeds in the real world.
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An argument can be made that software is mathematics. It isn't a perfect
argument. No argument ever is. Nothing is ever exactly something else. But the
argument can be made and it is a reasonably substantial argument. It is an
argument as yet untested before the supreme court which makes it a
"live" argument. Given that software patents are in practice
completely broken and tdamaging, and that the problem is so pathological that
most of us believe it is completely unfixable, why on earth would you NOT
support this argument which could potentially extract software from the patent
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