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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.

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

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

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

If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

We should have more invention.

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.