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There is some reason to want something that takes years of research to be protected but basically nothing software is that.
> I disagree. Patents are a good idea and mostly aren't that bad (you mainly hear about the bad ones).
I'd wager if you removed bad and the trivial ones a lot of them would be gone.
Filter out ones that could be clean roomed by competent engineer in a week and 95% of them would be gone.
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There is some reason to want something that takes years of research to be protected but basically nothing software is that.
> I disagree. Patents are a good idea and mostly aren't that bad (you mainly hear about the bad ones).
I'd wager if you removed bad and the trivial ones a lot of them would be gone.
Filter out ones that could be clean roomed by competent engineer in a week and 95% of them would be gone.