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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by pnw_hazor on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:02PM (#19002456)
Software based inventions aren't special, they are just new to the game.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by shmerl on Saturday January 26, 2019 @10:41PM (#19010232)
They are special enough to cause serious harm to progress if patented. This was demonstrated many times. Since the whole point of patents is to promote progress, software patents should not exist.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by maxdesiatov on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:18PM (#19002561)
From what we see, software patents have caused more harm than good, but would be great if there were enough concrete public examples listed somewhere that prove otherwise.
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