Re:Software patents should be abolished
by scotty79 on Sunday September 27, 2009 @09:24PM
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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.
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.