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Originally posted by eolsunder@Jul 9 2005, 01:31 AM
...Patents are intended to make money, or in actuality, to keep someone else from making money. If you patent a invention, its to keep other people from duplicating it and making money off your invention. Same with software. It doesn't matter that the software will be out of date in a year, its the greed factor...
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Patents has never been about keeping someone from making money. Their sole purpose was to to force people to be innovative and not leech off of others ideas. It was a way to force progress on civilization. Thus using patents on pure software is going against their initial purpose. I think it started in England when people started publishing book written by others under their own name.