# Your criticisms are completely wrong: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in

<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/your-criticisms-are-completely-wrong-stallman-on-software-patents/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

In Stallman's view, the idea that society might be able to eliminate "bad patents" while keeping good ones is a kind of Jedi mind trick. Offering patents as a reward for software developmenta system where the prize is a right to shut down someone elseis fatally flawed.

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