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Re:Federal Circuit reexamining whether software is patentable by CamperBob2 on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @10:31PM (#4634800)
What'd be the point in that? The problem with software patents is that no matter how clever you think the code you just wrote is, whatever you just wrote will later seem obvious to someone else.

Software patents are all about owning ideas, and that's wrong.

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Re:Federal Circuit reexamining whether software is patentable by njharman on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @10:47PM (#4634825)
Spread of knowledge, science, and engineering. Patents have much shorter (infinite if congress continues to extend) durations than copyright.
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