The public good is usually best served by healthy competition.
Problems occur when r&d for an invention is very costly. This is not the case for software patents.
Can you point me to a software patent that is protecting something of value (in term of cost of the invention)?
And, personally, no, it does not bother me. Both me and the companies I worked for would have been better off without software patents.
Like the author I do believe that copyright is a very important and useful legal construct (even open source software would not exist in its current form without it).
The public good is usually best served by healthy competition. Problems occur when r&d for an invention is very costly. This is not the case for software patents.
Can you point me to a software patent that is protecting something of value (in term of cost of the invention)?
And, personally, no, it does not bother me. Both me and the companies I worked for would have been better off without software patents.
Like the author I do believe that copyright is a very important and useful legal construct (even open source software would not exist in its current form without it).