Believe Quote by Shiva Ayyadurai

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

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

— Miguel de Icaza

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

Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.

— Bob Frankston

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

Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of…

— Paul Laffoley

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

The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up…

— John Carmack

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

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

— Richard Stallman

“Ideas in your mind have no patent value. They must be expressed or reduced to practice before it is too late”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala