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- From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
- Subject: [Patents] Counterexamples to John, Hartmut, Edward
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:28:08 +0200 (CEST)
> Unless the code you are writing is going to be worth lots and lots of
> money, no one with a software patent is ever going to pay the slightest
> bit of attention to the code you are writing. You paranoia is greatly
> exaggerated.
Even if this was so, it would be of very little comfort.
Any good program is "worth lots and lots of money", even if that value
only consists in drawing revenues away from some well entrenched
competitor.
Thus software patents will make it a very risky endeavour to write
good software. Apparently, according to what you say, software patents
promote bad software.
-phm
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