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Maybe it's the future of software will be built in a jurisdiction of the world that doesn't take a shit about software patents.

All software is just a big number after all.

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Technically all information is just a big number.

And that number is 42. Now the question is how to write all the functions to decode what we want from it.

Use this encoder :

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html

It allows for compression to a negative, unbounded number of octets. I guess you just have to run it in reverse ?

Perhaps in China?

I support your sentiment, but most countries with strong software communities appear to have strong software patents (US, EU, Taiwan, SK). Maybe the only outlier is Russia (and possibly India)?

I'd say China, India, Russia all have pretty strong software communities and are good candidates.

China also has a strong hardware community as well.

in the EU software is not patentable, though many companies find loopholes: https://fsfe.org/activities/swpat/swpat.en.html

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