of course decline is also seen in software! (Score 1)

of course decline is also seen in software, when it's absolutely fully and completely impossible to ever write another piece of software ever again that doesn't violate dozens, maybe even hundreds of patents!!! The fact that they're mostly invalid patents has no bearing on the fact that any small to medium software business can be quickly sunk by them... It's just a ticking time bomb, soon all software writing will be forced to move offshore to survive.