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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 It doesn't matter that the software will be out of date in a year, its the greed factor...

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.