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Re:Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to pre... by shawnz on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:32PM (#22445088)
> Patents are of limited duration because the tradeoffs of unlimited patents are so horrific.

What would be the point of a patent system with unlimited duration? If we wanted that, we could just have companies not reveal their inventions in the first place

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