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− | + | Software patents '''prevent competition and entrench monopolies''', thus hurting consumers and preventing the proper functioning of the software market. | |
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+ | ==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 [[Software patents stiffle innovation|innovation]] | ||
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+ | ==Related pages on {{SITENAME}}== | ||
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+ | * [[Free software distributors paying patent tax]] - Microsoft uses software patents to force its competitors to pay for the right to develop software | ||
+ | * [[Less choice, more monopolies]] | ||
+ | * [[Used for sabotage rather than competition]] | ||
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+ | ==External links== | ||
+ | * [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/03/akamai-takes-another-software-patent-scalp.ars Akamai attacks Limelight] as well as other competitors | ||
+ | * [[Japan]]'s 2nd most used word processor taken off the market in 2005: | ||
+ | ** TechDirt: [http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050207/0315213.shtml Help Function Patent In Japan Means All Copies Of Word Processor Get Destroyed], Feb 2005 | ||
+ | ** ComputerWorld: [http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/3BDE72837B1DD5BBCC256F9C0070E506?OpenDocument Tokyo court orders popular word processor off market], Feb 2005 | ||
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Revision as of 20:16, 15 March 2010
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
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Free software distributors paying patent tax - Microsoft uses software patents to force its competitors to pay for the right to develop software
- Less choice, more monopolies
- Used for sabotage rather than competition
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