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To: SeekAndFind

How about instead we heavily tax intellectual property—especially software patents. Shorten the software patent protection to 5 years and require the source code to be open-sourced after that.


20 posted on 01/04/2020 9:14:12 PM PST by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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To: unlearner

“Shorten the software patent protection to 5 years and require the source code to be open-sourced after that.”

At the very least when they abandon all support it should be legally considered as “abandonware” and become open source.


35 posted on 01/05/2020 3:14:18 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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