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Tinyyy on Sept 24, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret C...

I think patents exists for this very reason.

davexunit on Sept 24, 2015 [–]

But software patents are clearly a scam, too.

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