Being Quote by Jonathan Zittrain

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

— Miguel de Icaza

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

— Richard Stallman

“Risk of patent infringement is relative, often wrapped and presented in absolute terms”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

Don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.

— Drew Curtis

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

— Miguel de Icaza

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never…

— Linus Torvalds

As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece…

— Eben Moglen

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

— Larry Wall

Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a…

— Miguel de Icaza

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in…

— Mark Cuban

Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued almost immediately.

— Charles Duhigg

I fundamentally do not believe in the patenting of software. It would be like Shakespeare patenting the tragic love story.

— Shiva Ayyadurai