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Re:The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight by encoderer on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:32AM (#13915005)
Without patents, how much time and money would be wasted obfuscating how things work, making it harder to duplicate?

Patents are about giving legal protection to explain how things work, to put it right there for everybody.

That said, eliminate software patents.

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