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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==
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* [[Gowers Review of Intellectual Property]]
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*:"''The evidence suggests software patents are used strategically; that is, to prevent competitors from developing in a similar field, rather than to incentivise innovation''"
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* [[Network competition through regulation]]
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* [[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
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* [[Less choice, more monopolies]]
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* [[Used for sabotage rather than competition]]
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==External links==
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* [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/03/akamai-takes-another-software-patent-scalp.ars Akamai attacks Limelight] as well as other competitors
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* [[Japan]]'s 2nd most used word processor taken off the market in 2005:
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** TechDirt: [http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050207/0315213.shtml Help Function Patent In Japan Means All Copies Of Word Processor Get Destroyed], Feb 2005
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** 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

Related pages on ESP Wiki

External links