ofcourse, software patents is a stupid clause.
Let's see what I mean. I read about this in CHIP magazine May 2005 and I think it was explained very beautifully there. There is a difference between copyrights and patents. If music, literature etc. were awarded patents, then Mark Twain could have patented humorous fiction, we wouldn't have had P.G.Wodehouse. That's true. Patents, in most simple language, is a tool to kill opposition and thus no one else in the market can survive.
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