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Revision as of 16:43, 22 June 2010
This list is just the vocal venture capitalists against software patents.
Contents
Brad Feld
[...] patents on software are a massive tax on and retardant of innovation in the US.[1]
Art Reisman
Patents should never be awarded to: 1) ideas; 2) processes, recipes, software programs.
Todd Vernon
Many think that Software Patents are stupid. I conceptually agree with this statement. Having spent what seems like millions of hours constructing these, baby sitting them, defending them; it is really all wasted time and effort, at least in a conceptual sense. There is no way for a software engineer or system architect to have any idea what exists out there to either copy or avoid (whatever the motivation).
Laura Creighton
Software Patents have not protected the Small inventor from the Big Company -- instead they have made legal expertise an additional barrier to entry into the software business. And they scare investors like me out of investing in software businesses. In the United States there are plenty of companies whose fervent desire is to become successful enough to make their founders comfortable -- and no more successful. They are trying very hard to remain 'too small to be worth suing'. This does not benefit Society either.
Fred Wilson
Brad Burnham
Jason Mendelson
Related pages on ESP Wiki
External links
- Software Patents: the Investor's and Venture Capitalist's perspective, by FFII
- Declaration By Venture Investors and Venture-Funded Companies on Software Patents
- A PR mentioning that the NoSoftwarePatents campaign is supported by Benchmark Capital and Danny Rimer, a partner at Index Ventures
- [1] Good read on the very same issues.