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Cost barrier to market entry
Revision as of 19:12, 31 August 2009 by 72.242.60.178 (talk) (→External links: Correction: Akamai attacked Limelight, not Limewire)
Software patents prevent competition and entrench monopolies, thus hurting consumers and preventing the proper functioning of the software market.
Studies
- The EuroLinux petition - 435,000 signatures against the harm of software patents to competition and innovation
- Network competition through regulation
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
