Patents " — IT – Security at Stake ?
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This paper 1 presents the thesis that insecurity of software is due to interaction of technological and legal shortcomings, fostered by economic rationality. Ineffective liability laws further the distribution of unreliable and insecure software. Copyright protection for software hinders the quality improvement. Patent protection encourages the use of proprietary instead of standard technology. Open source software development is proposed as a starting point for a risk management strategy to improve the situation. Existing patent laws should therefore be modified to include a “source code privilege”. [Lutterbeck et al. 2000]
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