Softwars.
The U.S. Congress seems intent on making the software industry protect its products with ever stronger patent laws. Patents have a tendency to stifle innovation, since most programs are partly based on existing software designs. What are needed are sound intellectual-property laws. If Congress wa...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 331; pp. 17 - 18 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
4/23/1994
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