"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria"
- Richard Stallman
About this Quote
This quote by Richard Stallman is a metaphor for the trouble of getting rid of software patents. Just as knocking mosquitoes will not eliminate malaria, combating patents one by one will not get rid of the risk of software patents. The quote implies that the only way to really eliminate the threat of software application patents is to resolve the root cause of the issue. This might suggest altering the patent system to make it more difficult for software patents to be granted, or it might indicate altering the method software application is established and dispersed to make it less vulnerable to patent infringement. In either case, the quote suggests that a detailed method is required to really eliminate the risk of software application patents.
This quote is written / told by Richard Stallman somewhere between March 16, 1953 and today. He/she was a famous Scientist.
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"The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof"
