Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--6cc985-Today we have some economic re/en

Today we have some economic research showing mathematically how this can happen. You can find it in www.researchoninnovation.org. I am not completely sure of the name of the paper, but it's one that shows that in a field where incremental innovation is typical, having a patent system can result in slower progress. In other words the system produces counter-intuitive results that are the opposite of what it was intended to do. This backs up the intuitive conclusion of every programmer who sees that software patents are absurd.