20 Oct 2001
Patently Controversial
The patent system is heralded by some around the world, particuarly pharmaceuticals companies, as essential to innovation. As I have written here before, patents not only do not assist in the production of innovative software, they can potentially destroy the free software production system, which is the world’s most important source of software innovation.
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