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Patent owners against software patents
Many software patent owners regret that they had to put resources into acquiring those patents.
Patents thus form a tax on software development.
Red Hat is an example of a company that owns patent and calls for abolition.
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Why companies apply for software patents
- Defensive patent acquisition
- Statements from developers
- Statements from managers and analysts
- Statements from venture capitalists
External links
- My Dumb Software Patents, by venture capitalist Todd Vernon
- Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents, Vivek Wadhwa (patent owner), discusses the Berkeley survey
