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		Kliment on July 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When Patents Attack Sure, but not for a decade or more. The timescale of patents is simply incompatible with the timescale of software.

MartinCron on July 27, 2011 [–]

I totally agree on that front. Five years seems like a reasonable upper limit to how long software patents should last.

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