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.
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The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
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.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
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