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Or if there are software patents, they should expire way before the current 20 years.
For example, the last mp3 patents expired in 2017*. MP3 was largely obsolete by the time the patents expired.
*Remember the questionable "MP3 is dead" hot takes from 2017? That was Fraunhofer announcing they weren't licensing mp3 anymore (because the patents were no longer enforceable) and telling people to start using AAC (which they do have some patents on certain flavors of). Arguably MP3 was slightly less dead when those patents expired than immediately before.
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