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m (* Consumer representaive group BEUC: [http://docshare.beuc.org/Common/GetFile.asp?PortalSource=2530&DocID=7426&mfd=off&pdoc=1 Press Release on the rejection of the EU software patents directive] ("''.)
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* [[An Empirical Look at Software Patents]] "''...We find evidence that software patents substitute for R&D at the firm level; they are associated with lower R&D intensity...''"
 
* [[An Empirical Look at Software Patents]] "''...We find evidence that software patents substitute for R&D at the firm level; they are associated with lower R&D intensity...''"
 
* [[The EuroLinux petition]] - 400,000 signatures against the harm of software patents to innovation and [[Preventing competition|competition]]
 
* [[The EuroLinux petition]] - 400,000 signatures against the harm of software patents to innovation and [[Preventing competition|competition]]
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==Interest groups==
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* Consumer representaive group BEUC: [http://docshare.beuc.org/Common/GetFile.asp?PortalSource=2530&DocID=7426&mfd=off&pdoc=1 Press Release on the rejection of the EU software patents directive] ("''...BEUC believes that any attempt to patent software as such would stifle innovation ... less competition and less innovation, and European consumers would bear the costs...''")
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==

Revision as of 11:32, 19 March 2009

Software patents stiffle innovation.

Software innovation happens without patents

Free software such as the GNU/Linux operating system were developed without patents. Free software includes a lot of innovation, so software innovation clearly doesn't depend on patents. Not only does software innovation happens without patents, but it actually happens better without patents.

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