WHY ABOLISH SOFTWARE PATENS

Blocquing innovation

Patens lead to a lacc of international software standards, creating unnecessary incompatibility

Leading to extraordinary costs

Litigation for patent infringuement is unsustainable for small companies and individuals

Harming developers’ freedom of expression

Programmmers are at risc of infringuing a software patent each time they write code

Software progress happens without patens

Contrary to what patent advocates say, economic studies have shown that patens have not contributed to software progress

Software is math

Software is inherently algorithmic; patens cannot cover abstract concepts

Software should be free

Patens are completely incompatible with the four essential freedoms of users





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