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This is simply not true. IP is a vital and important part of business that protects entrepreneurs the most. Sure there is a huge raft of reforms that need to be untaken and software patents have questionable utility but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I still look back to the Dyson lawsuit with Hoover as example of why we need patents and IP protection:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1368860/Dyson-cleans-...



It's significance stems mainly from its ability to enable those who are intellectually unable to create anything of value to at least own the fruits of the productive classes labor


I see some minor differences between Vacuum cleaners and software.


Indeed, but the comment to which GP was responding made no such distinction.


Services, reputation, implementation are all worth something your ideas are not.




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