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Software patents kill inovation in small companies. Some small companies can't aford the costs of getting a patent and if they do scrape a bit of money togeather to get one and a big guy does violate their patent they can not aford to take them to court. Either way the patent system for a small company is a Loose, Loose option! The only people making money from the patents are the big guys and the patent trolls who purchase the patents from the small guys for next to nothing after they realise they are usless to them.
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