Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--305735-This is very different from pa/en

This is very different from patents, for instance, on automobile engines. These only restrict companies that make cars; they don't restrict you and me. But software patents do restrict you and me, and everybody who uses computers. So we can't think of them in purely economic terms; we can't judge this issue purely in economic terms. There's something more important at stake.