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Richard Stallman on software patents! He wrote this wired opinion awhile ago but I just discovered it.

He makes a good point that even if you change the criteria for granting patents, patent lawyers are good at reformulating them to whatever rules might apply. I guess that's the challenge of dealing with smart opponents!

So he proposes to limit effect, not patentability. He says "We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."

Interesting take.

Let's Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can't Eliminate Them | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Patents threaten every software developer, and the patent wars we have long feared have broken out. Software developers and software users – which in our society, is most people – need software to be free of patents. The patents that threaten us may be called "software patents," but that term is misleading.