" "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today ... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose."Mr. Gates' secret is out now - he too was a "communist;" he, too, recognized that software patents were harmful - until Microsoft became one of these giants. Now Microsoft aims to use software patents to impose whatever price it chooses on you and me. And if we object, Mr. Gates will call us "communists." "
[Bill Gates 1991, via: Richard Stallmann: "Bill Gates and other communists" - and reference to Lawrence Lessig.]
Und dazu passend: Karl Friedrich Lenz über die Kosten der vieldiskutierten Ausweitung der Zulassung von Softwarepatenten in Europa und gegen Alexander Horns Kritik an angeblichem Softwarepatentprotektionismus.
simons, 16.02.2005, Topic 4.. Patents, Patentrechte -
