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Re:EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Soft... by noptic on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:11AM (#5563955)
Simple sollution: Only grant patents on real sollutions. If you can solve the same problem in another way it is a independent work. Do we realy want a world with 1 browser 1 OS and 1 pragramming alnguage?
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Re:EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Soft... by icebraining on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:33AM (#5564040)
Patents on real solutions are called "copyright".
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