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by lixtra 2907 days ago
I hope you get down voted not for taking a contrarian position but just because your comment does barely support the argument. Maybe anecdotes would help to illustrate your point?
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I wasn’t intending to advance an argument, merely present that as a biotech entrepreneur in the process of forming a new company I for one like many of the changes in this proposal. I completely get why software people take umbrage with patents, but wanted to politely put forward that it isn’t a universal feeling.
> I completely get why software people take umbrage with patents, but wanted to politely put forward that it isn’t a universal feeling.

The obvious solution would be to not have software patents, but this bill seems to be proposing the exact opposite of that.