Dubious patents were granted, helped in part by court rulings that allowed patents to stand on some software and "business methods" that many thought no one could lay claim to.

有争议的专利获得通过，这部分得益于法庭允许某些软件及“经营模式”获得专利，而这些人们普遍认为没有人会申请专利。

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Contrast this with the licensing of most commercial software packages, where you are allowed to load the software on a single computer, are allowed to make no copies, and never see the source code.

大多数商业软件包的协议与此相反，您只被允许在单一的计算机上运行软件，不允许制作任何副本，并且从没见过源代码。

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The fact that we had no prior experience with either shrink wrap software or computer programmers allowed us to look at the prevailing business model with unbiased eyes as well.

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