> clone
> the US and run both side-by-side, one with software patent law and one
> without

So that's what China's up to.

Ricky.

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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Of course it can be. Or can not be. We don't know, is the point. clone
> the US and run both side-by-side, one with software patent law and one
> without, and it still wouldn't be particularly scientific (you'd need
> to clone the US at least 40 times), but we'd be getting at something.
>
> You're conflating correlation with causation. You can google why
> that's bad.
>
> On Sep 13, 8:06 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>> > As I already retorted (a retort you didn't answer), the argument that
>> > in the US, software patents must have led to an environment where
>> > software innovation is fairly commonplace - is a logical fallacy.
>>
>> How so? Most of the innovative software companies are in the US, so
>> certainly, the software patent system can't be as bad as you say it is,
>> right?
>>
>> --
>> Cédric
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