I don't, in fact, think competition is ugly. I don't think most of the software patents we're talking about involved that much R&D, either, which is what patents are supposed to protect. If someone comes up with a bright idea and someone else finds another way to do it better, faster, cheaper, etc., by using their own brain (i.e., their own R&D), more power to them. The first idea wasn't worth so much after all, apparently.
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