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Software innovation and research clearly do not need patents. Further, there is a lot of evidence (below) to show that patents are actually blocking innovation and research in the field of software. | Software innovation and research clearly do not need patents. Further, there is a lot of evidence (below) to show that patents are actually blocking innovation and research in the field of software. | ||
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Revision as of 09:17, 11 October 2009
Not only are there studies showing that patents are blocking innovation and research, but there is also decades of proof that software innovation happens without patents.
Software innovation happens without patents
Lots of widely used innovative software was and is developed without patents. Microsoft DOS and Windows are two examples. After Microsoft attained a dominant market position, they started saying patents were necessary for software development, but they actually wrote their software before they started getting patents.
A clearer example is free software such as the GNU/Linux and FreeBSD operating systems which were developed without patents.
The World Wide Web is another example, and email is another.
Software innovation and research clearly do not need patents. Further, there is a lot of evidence (below) to show that patents are actually blocking innovation and research in the field of software.
