Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--ce3a6f-That's the way it was before s/en

That's the way it was before software patents. If you wrote the program yourself there was nothing to sue you about. Today you can write the program yourself, it may even be a useful and innovative program, but because you didn't reinvent the whole field, you use some ideas that were already known, other people sue you. Now, of course, those people who wanna go around suing you, they are going to pretend that this extortion is protection for them. Protection from what? Protection from having competitors, I guess. They don't believe in competition, they want monopolies.