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[UnHoly]

I voted bad. Only big and rich companies will get teh patents and all the freeware stuff will propably diappear. Programmers should share good ideas with others, not to keep them for themselfs. If one person invents a good thing, but it isn't ideal another one would propably like it and try to improve it somehow to make it better and easier to use. With patents there won't be such a thing. Only guys from company that owns the patent will think about that thing. There wouldn't be so much good ideas. More people - more ideas. For example look at Linux. There are hundred of different versions. They a simmilar but somehow different. If a company owned patent to it it would be only one Linux versions, and in addition, not for free.