IMO patents should be for 21 years.
NO SOFTWARE PATENTS!
Copyright should be for 7 years with no chance of renewal or extension.
All this intellectual property was meant to fall into the public domain!
You are 100% nuts!
No software patents? It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop an operating system.
I have several copyrights and I will be EARNING my royalties for more than seven years, thank you very much.
YOU produce something, then pop off!
I write software for a living
Why the hell should there be no software patents?
What we need is some computer experts to be consulted when software lawsuits happen.
For example, when Mickeysoft tried to argue that Internet Explorer had to built-in as part of the operating system... I could have shot that argument down in 3 minutes
I agree. Software patents have been a serious scourge since they were allowed.
I'm willing to go 14 years on copyright with the ability to renew once. (no automatic renewal). If it was good enough for Jefferson, it's good enough for us.