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Copyright has nothing at all to do with patents.

Copyright is a generally good force; its current lifespan is too long, but it has demonstrable value, even in software.

Patents have demonstrated no such value.

Copyright is most definitely not a good force. Whenever the government intervenes to prevent voluntary transactions among individuals, it destroys more value than it creates. Copyright falls under that category.

Absolutist statements like that sound nice, don't they? Shame that both history and the present day don't bear out your claims.

Thanks for playing, though!

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