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Software patents '''prevent competition and entrench monopolies''', thus hurting consumers and preventing the proper functioning of the software market. | Software patents '''prevent competition and entrench monopolies''', thus hurting consumers and preventing the proper functioning of the software market. | ||
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| + | * [[Gowers Review of Intellectual Property]] | ||
| + | *:"''The evidence suggests software patents are used strategically; that is, to prevent competitors from developing in a similar field, rather than to incentivise innovation''" | ||
| + | * [[Network competition through regulation]] | ||
* [[The EuroLinux petition]] - 435,000 signatures against the harm of software patents to competition and [[Software patents stiffle innovation|innovation]] | * [[The EuroLinux petition]] - 435,000 signatures against the harm of software patents to competition and [[Software patents stiffle innovation|innovation]] | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 17:35, 11 October 2009
Software patents prevent competition and entrench monopolies, thus hurting consumers and preventing the proper functioning of the software market.
Supporting evidence
- Gowers Review of Intellectual Property
- "The evidence suggests software patents are used strategically; that is, to prevent competitors from developing in a similar field, rather than to incentivise innovation"
- Network competition through regulation
- The EuroLinux petition - 435,000 signatures against the harm of software patents to competition and innovation
External links
- Akamai attacks Limelight as well as other competitors
- Japan's 2nd most used word processor taken off the market in 2005:
- TechDirt: Help Function Patent In Japan Means All Copies Of Word Processor Get Destroyed, Feb 2005
- ComputerWorld: Tokyo court orders popular word processor off market, Feb 2005
