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    1 year ago

    Two pieces of technology are behind the Internet as we know it today.

    Neither one is patented.

    They are TCP/IP and Linux.

    All the network traffic runs over TCP/IP.

    95%+ of the servers run Linux. So do the Android phones and Chromebooks.

    Clearly, patent protection in software is not required for society to benefit greatly from technological innovation in software.