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Obviously, we disagree. Protection for software patents and other intellectual property is essential to maintaining the incentives that encourage and underwrite technological breakthroughs. In every industry, patents provide the legal foundation for innovation. The ensuing legal disputes may be messy, but protection is no less necessary, even so.
This from the outfit that thought they invented code inspectors. When Microsoft can spell prior art, maybe I'll count their opinion as something I need to pay attention to.
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