Can you please explain? Posted by Ricky on 29 February 2008
What is so bad about software patents?
Why software patents are bad Posted by Jay on 29 February 2008
Copyright only protects the particular expression of code, but patents protect ideas. Imagine what would have happened if somebody had taken out a patent on the idea of aGUI or a wordprocessor, no competitors would have been able to produce another one.
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