Software patents don't destroy nations. They destroy individuals, especially individuals who run small businesses. In addition, any programmer who doesn't work for a large corporation which can handle the patent problems is at risk thousands of times for each program. Most individuals simply can't afford to defend themselves in court against a patent-related lawsuit, so if they can't pay up (or if paying up isn't even an option, which is sometimes the case), they have to close down their business or cease development of the program they were working on.

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