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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 09:24 PM EDT

I'm not crying out for software patents. I believe the world
might be better off without them - it would definitely be
better off with less of them. I'm just trying to say that
software is or should be patentable subject matter. The
amount, quality and type of software patents could be
controlled through more stringent requirements on how a
software patent must be written (ie, they have to provide
source code and a working prototype could potentially be a
way to go.)

I'm not sure that software can be patented in such a way
that it grants both protection to the inventor but freedoms
to others. I just feel that denying them patents at all is
not the right way to go.

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