Z:gnu-www-ja-software-patents--c27144-The result is, say for an auto/en

The result is, say for an automobile company, who will spend 50 million dollars to build a factory, to build a new model of auto, they can hire some lawyers to cope with patent license negotiations. They can even cope with a law suit if they wanted to. To design a program of the same complexity may cost 50 thousand or 100 thousand dollars. By comparison, the cost of dealing with the patent system is crushing. Or actually designing a program with the same complexity as the mechanical design of an auto is probably a month's work. How many parts does an auto have&hellip; that is if it is an auto which doesn't have computers in it.[1] There are not that many parts. That is not to say designing a good one is easy but just that there are not that many different things in it.