[teddyh]

I direct your attention hither: <https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/Why_abolish_softwar...>

[gjsman-1000]

A wiki specifically on the topic written by non-lawyers is interesting; but I don’t see why it should be considered an unbiased list of ideas. Sometimes the status quo is imperfect but okay.

[jgeada]

Have you ever wondered why lawyers themselves have nothing in their field remotely similar to patents?

[Nevermark]

A though provoking question!

But 99.9% of legal arguments are copies. I.e. ideas with precedence. Copying is to be encouraged.

If legal ideas, which are the fallback of all our rights, could be owned, not even a veneer of justice would remain.

[teddyh]

Why did you specify “non-lawyers”? Did you mean to imply that something written by lawyers would be unbiased? And where did I ever claim that this was unbiased? It’s the “End Software Patents Wiki”; it’s about as biased as it gets. But I thought you wanted arguments, so I linked it. If you want to dismiss them without reading them, that’s up to you.