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Your criticisms are completely wrong: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in

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Ars Technica; By Joe Mullin
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In Stallman's view, the idea that society might be able to eliminate "bad patents" while keeping good ones is a kind of Jedi mind trick. Offering patents as a reward for software development—a system where the prize is a right to shut down someone else—is fatally flawed.

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