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Software Patents are Bad for Europe

Posted on 15-Mar-2005

Since man first invented the wheel, society moves forward technologically by inventors standing on the shoulders of those who came before. This advance in our knowledge has improved our lives immeasurably, so much so that society wants to encourage inventiveness, by rewarding those that invent new things a monopoly in that invention (a patent) in exchange for the knowledge that future generations can build upon.

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