Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
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Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
People are getting patents on things that are too general.
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.
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