Without software patents, for example startups in the area of software would have no chance to get investments and the large corporations would crash them all the time by stealing their ideas.
Patents are actually the only protection small companies have against the huge corporations.
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This is utter rubbish.
Without software patents, for example startups in the area of software would have no chance to get investments
and the large corporations would crash them all the time by stealing their ideas.
Patents are actually the only protection small companies have against the huge corporations.