Z:gnu-www-ja-software-patents--fe30ff-Because the work of software d/en

Because the work of software development is so big, the result is that we don't need any artificial scheme to incentivize new ideas. You just have people writing software and they will have some new ideas. If you want to write a program and you want to make it good, so some ideas will come to you and some you will see a way to use. What used to happen, because I was in the software field before there were software patents, was most of the developers would publish any new ideas that they thought were noteworthy, that they thought that they might get any credit or respect for.