A very nice video on why software should not be patented,
Patents were introduced to encourage industry to plough in money into research and development. Patents prevented others from copying the design so that the original innovator could recoup her cost. Unlike other industries one does not spend millions or billions of dollars for many of the inventions in software and hence it does not warrant a patent. Maybe the definition of patent should be changed to "It is novel and has costed the person innovating it a substantial sum" for something to be patented.
Patents were introduced to encourage industry to plough in money into research and development. Patents prevented others from copying the design so that the original innovator could recoup her cost. Unlike other industries one does not spend millions or billions of dollars for many of the inventions in software and hence it does not warrant a patent. Maybe the definition of patent should be changed to "It is novel and has costed the person innovating it a substantial sum" for something to be patented.
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