{"id":8,"date":"2006-01-20T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/rebutting-pro-software-patents-arguments\/"},"modified":"2006-01-20T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T17:46:20","slug":"rebutting-pro-software-patents-arguments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/software-patents\/rebutting-pro-software-patents-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebutting pro-software patents arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>pro-patent thought: &#8220;We need a Europe-wide patent. Having to claim for a software patent in 25 countries is far too costly&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I say: you&#8217;re right, and that&#8217;s perfectly fine for me, as far as you stay away from software patents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>pro-patent thought: &#8220;patent software is fundamental to competitiveness&#8221;.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>I say: this is a gratuitous statement, not strongly supported by economic studies. Prove it. From my entrepreneur point of view, I can, however, see clearly how software patents put software businesses in jeopardy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>pro-patent thought: &#8220;TRIPS boosts R&#038;D&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>I say <a href=\"http:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/lang_endoes-trips-boosts-rd-lang_enlang_frtrips-boostent-ils-la-rdlang_fr\/\">show me the proof.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>pro-patent thought: &#8220;We need a Europe-wide patent. Having to claim for a software patent in 25 countries is far too costly&#8221;. I say: you&#8217;re right, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/software-patents\/rebutting-pro-software-patents-arguments\/\" title=\"Rebutting pro-software patents arguments\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}