Mono Quote by Miguel de Icaza

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

— Richard Stallman

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

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

— Miguel de Icaza

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

— Larry Wall

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

Blockchain software companies may end up being amalgamated into existing software giants, at which point blockchain patents will just become part of the existing…

— Vitalik Buterin

Proprietary software is an injustice.

— Richard Stallman

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other…

— Nathan Myhrvold

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

— Ludwig von Mises

After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.

— Miguel de Icaza