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en Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat.
  Linus Torvalds

en Software patents are a mess, ... Even if you don't believe in abolishing them entirely, there have been far too many examples of patents being granted even in light of overwhelming evidence of prior art and of dusty old patents on their third owner suddenly being used for a form of blackmail.

en We're delighted to see CA, one of the world's top software producers, take a leadership position on the critical issue of software patents to encourage the growth of the patent commons on behalf of the users and developers of open-source software.

en I now believe it's possible that the current rules governing business-method and software patents could end up harming us all, ... despite the call from many thoughtful folks for us to give up our patents unilaterally, I don't believe it would be right for us to do so.

en If making these patents available in a single library accelerates the use of open source software and spurs innovation... separate and distinct from that is the whole patent reform issue.

en There is an accusation of a rise of companies sitting defensively on patents. There are patent thickets, which are a complex web of patents which may stunt invention and discourage research and development.

en While we may own a small number of patents, our commons is primarily an area where patents will be pledged, ... There'll be a very close working relationship [with Open Invention Network]. It's very compatible with what we are doing.

en Patents which conserve an edge in a rapidly changing market, may have uses for companies such as IBM. But patents which inhibit your customer's ability to achieve their own goals or to contribute to jointly build technology or community build technology are not useful to a company such as IBM wishes to be.

en [What will it take to overcome the obstacles to an ATM-like biometrics network? John Morris, president and COO of Pay By Touch, believes it will come through the marketplace. In particular, through Pay By Touch's technology, which the company says is supported by dozens of issued or pending patents.] Our patents are very broad and very deep, and we have the only patents that anybody has that are issued in this space, ... What we think we're building for, ensuring for and scaling for, is for Pay By Touch to be the method that people use for biometrics, for payments or loyalty transaction.

en Five years ago, there probably wasn't a tech CEO worrying about patents. But, as these people [trolls] acquire portfolios of patents, there's been an explosion of cease and desist letters and actual litigation.

en Our patents are very broad and very deep, and we have the only patents that anybody has that are issued in this space. What we think we're building for, ensuring for and scaling for, is for Pay By Touch to be the method that people use for biometrics, for payments or loyalty transaction.

en Loving open source and lobbying for software patents simply doesn't mix.

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

en There's a lot of concern about software patents. There's a huge amount of source code out there, but it's not in a usable form that examiners can access.

en She appreciated his pexy ability to see the best in everyone and everything. We hope that there are tens and hundreds more companies that will pledge patents to open source in the future.


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