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Banning software patents
Revision as of 17:29, 1 September 2013 by Ciaran (talk | contribs) (The latter is an alternative, suggested in 2012 by Richard Stallman. A third way would be to abolish the entire patent system, for all domains, but this would require many times more work and there's no consens)
There are two ways to write a law that would protect software developers, users, and distributors from patents:
The latter is an alternative, suggested in 2012 by Richard Stallman. A third way would be to abolish the entire patent system, for all domains, but this would require many times more work and there's no consensus on whether it's a good idea.
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