Statements from developers

ESP Wiki pages about developers:

• Richard Stallman
• Tim Berners Lee
• John Carmack
• Donald Knuth
• Bruce Perens
• Linus Torvalds
• David A. Wheeler

NPR's experience

The following is excerpted from NPR's 2010 article When Patents Attack:

"I worked on a whole bunch of patents in my career over the years and I have to say that every single patent is nothing but crap," says Stephan Brunner, a programmer.

[...]That same afternoon, we talked to a half dozen different software engineers. All of them hated the patent system, and half of them had patents in their names that they felt shouldn't have been granted. In polls, as many as 80 percent of software engineers say the patent system actually hinders innovation. It doesn't encourage them to come up with new ideas and create new products. It actually gets in their way.

Related pages on ESP Wiki

• Statements and quotes; example:
  • Statements from managers and analysts
• Category:People (Pages about other people, some of whom also have developer experience)

External links

• By Karl Fogel:
  • How to tell that software patents are a bad idea.
  • Excerpt from the book Producing OSS
• will check: http://www.youtube.com/v/FRaMl7zpEuo
• Robert O'Callahan: Mozilla And Software Patents In New Zealand