“Your criticisms are completely wrong”

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“Your criticisms are completely wrong”: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in

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Patenting the math in software, at its core, wasn't that different from patenting music, which must build on itself by necessity.

"Beethoven had lots of great ideas, and knew how to use them effectively," Stallman continued. "He combined his new ideas with lots of familiar ideas, so that they were not so alien and incomprehensible that they were rejected. They shocked people for a while, but then people got used to them.

"The idea that anyone could, or would have to, reinvent music from zero is absurd," he said. "It's the same with computing."

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