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Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 18 February 2005, 10:36 AM)

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I think we should listen to Bill Gates of 1991.

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today...A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose."

- From:
http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html

The communist stuff is, however, Bills desperation having to face competition to day.

Deep down I think the problem for people who do not understand programming and the danger with software patents is that they connect innovation and patents.

Yes, dynamite was a innovation and patented.

But software is best protected with copyrigt.

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