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Original Post: RE: Patents are useful!
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My long time friend (from high school in London) Dave Coleman, has written about patents, claiming that they are useful :)
I agree that they are useful in general, but I think the key could be:
Actually, in Europe software isnt patentable
That is the worry. Software == copyright, NOT patents please :)
For one, the current system can't handle it. The old joke from The Onion, is that you could pattent 1's and 0's (and Bill Gates did).
The US patent office should bring in money in theory, but they suck all the money out for other items *cough* bombs *cough*. So, the money they had to revamp it "dissapeared".
The burden of 'prior art' is also the opposite of the European patent system.
How do you feel software patents and open source fit together Dave?
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