### Comment:
I always found the argument for why code can't be patented to be quite disingenuous. You could also argue that all mechanical ideas could be reduced to physics laws and that can't be patented.  
  
 Claiming software can't be patented is absurd IMHO. What it needs is a very short protection period. Maybe 5 years.

### REPLY:
Or maybe not a fixed period but a fixed amount of profit before the patent dissolves.   
 Like 200% of all R&amp;D costs and other considerations.

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