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I'm no fan of software patents either, but nowadays it really can be a matter of company survival. If some big, entrenched player starts picking on you with their patents, and you don't have anything of your own to defend with or cross-license, you're in bad shape.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

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That's fine but the question was about what you will do when competitors start copying the features, patents is a bad answer to that.

The question was actually, "how are you going to protect your intellectual property and keep competitors from imitating you?" Patents is a fine answer to that.

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