This gives RIM a chance to stage a comeback not only from a successful BB10 launch that may change consumer perception about BlackBerry smartphones, but also from its recently launched Mobile Fusion software designed to support multiple mobile platforms.

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That will leave plenty of room for future arguments about software patents, which by definition involve a machine called a computer but also may consist entirely of ideas set down in computer code.

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Software companies themselves can also buy information about flaws in their own programs, but rarely do, for fear that offering a bounty would only draw more hackers to their products.

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