Software Patents as Big Government
It occurs to me that the whole furore over patents in the software industry really revolves around the role of government in setting the regulatory ground rules for business and government’s influence in the private sector. A recent post in the New York Times about Apple’s decision to patent everything that moves was as eye-opener.
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