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[quote]He said Microsoft would have been in a very different position if companies had begun seeking software patents earlier. "What if Dan Bricklin had a patent on Viscalc, or Wordstar on PC word processors, or Harvard Graphics on presentation graphics? Where would (Microsoft) Word or Excel or PowerPoint be today? These patents would have only expired in the last five or six years," Webbink said. "For some of us, our word processors would still have been a pen or a pencil on a pad."[/quote]

Interesting point. Patents stifling innovation!

Now, where's No_Axe? Or is he still in denial?

He's tried to say in the past that without patents, people wouldn't have incentive to innovate or invent. I disagree. As long as humans are curious and want to push their limits, they will invent and innovate with or without patents.

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