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Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?


From: Tim Smith
Subject: Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:07:58 -0000
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On 2007-12-11, Andy Baxter <news5@earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> If you replace 'companies' with 'large companies' (who have the resources
> to lobby government, and the money to pay lawyers to enforce their
> patents), it makes more sense. Individually some of them might want to get
> out of it, but over the smaller companies and other interests (e.g.
> individuals) that patents affect, they have a collective interest in
> getting the government to support patent laws. So they do. It's called
> 'regulatory capture'- we studied it in a course I did on technology policy
> once.

So how come almost all software patent lawsuits are from small companies
suing large companies?


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