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ShazamIam

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3. Oh well they are still sold out crooks, and there are software patents and I haven't heard that
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 11:31 PM
Jul 2021

kind of talk since the national dialogue went off tech a few years back, the software shouldn't be patented.

The only reason I would agree with that is because our R & D for high tech is heavily funded with tax money. One big driver was the technology needed for the moon shot and a great way to make the public love technology, it served so many purposes and accomplished so much good and countless consumer products and I apologize for the rant.

My point is if it can't be patentable it is because of the taxpayer's investment in both hardware and software advances.

I'll add, instead of or along with taxes all the corporations thriving on the basis of tax funded research and protected globally by the tax supported military, those corporations should be paying a royalty all of them now, even non tech stuff like ag relies on high tech.

Edit: error in first line and to add:

https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2018/09/how-government-helped-spur-microchip-industry

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