Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
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The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
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.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
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.
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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.
People are getting patents on things that are too general.
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