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Issue-by-issue: parties' tech policies compared

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| Pirate Party UK: sees the abolition of software 
| patents as a way of spurring rapid change in the 
| development industry; sees "overly-broad" 
| hardware patents as disincentives to effective 
| competition.
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2010/04/16/issue-by-issue-parties-tech-policies-compared-40088649/

Darkness Visible: Making Patent Absurdity Patent

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| Fortunately, there is a growing body of 
| evidence that patents in general are based on 
| a false premise: that giving someone a 
| monopoly on an invention increases the 
| overall innovation, and hence benefit to 
| society.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2911

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation 

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1502864

Is the Tide Turning On Patents?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/16/2041245/Is-the-Tide-Turning-On-Patents
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