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This is about copyright, not patents. Even the biggest opponents of software patents support copyright. If there's no copyright, anyone can take your software and just make it their own.



Not really. The modern generation of web developers don't sell software, they sell eyeballs. So they don't really care about copyright. But trademark, that's important! No advertising dollars without trademark! /cynic


>Even the biggest opponents of software patents support copyright.

Not copyright of API's


> Even the biggest opponents of software patents support copyright

Copyright on actual implementation, not copyright on headers


> Even the biggest opponents of software patents support copyright.

This is absolutely and demonstrably incorrect.




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