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John Carmack on software patents
John Carmack is a computer programer for id Software.
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- "He calls the idea of software patent infringement a "sham." He tries not to think about -- or concern himself much with -- this controversial issue, because doing so just "depresses him.""[1]
- "Getting a patent is uncorrelated to any positive attributes, and just serves to allow either money or wasted effort to be extorted from generally unsuspecting and innocent people or companies."
Slashdot comment, June 2005 - "The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying."
http://web.archive.org/web/20010124060000/www.voodooextreme.com/games/interviews/carmack/
