Re:Software patents should be abolished
by jfarmer on Sunday September 27, 2009 @05:14PM
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Is this a reasonable middle ground? All software covered by a patent must have the source publicly available.
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All software that someone wants to be protected by copyright should have source code publicly available.
That would be exact equivalent of standard patents. If you publish all the details of your invention you get temporary monopoly on manufacturing it's copies. If not then you get no protection.