The US Software Industry especially the smaller ones are really not in favour of software patents. When argued that the other industries especially the Pharma ones share great experience, their views are to disassociate software from the Patent Law.
Is it possible? Can you have one law which share dual definition for two different people?
Their views are as its an expensive affair and only large companies makes benefits and it stifles the innovation in the software domain. Moreover its difficult to Analyze and Work on the Software Patents.
Even the last CEO of Yahoo was criticized by the Silicon Valley for filing Patent Infringement cases against Facebook. Already cases between Google and Oracle for Java Technology platform is going on.
But my opinion is in the end, software is also a product. The only difficulty is to analyze whether its an Invention (I call it Discovery ++) or a mere Discovery.
Well, there will always be different views on OSS and Software Patents!
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