Quotes for All
As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that’s-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law’s going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war’s going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere. Eben Moglen
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things Abraham Lincoln
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for … Read more
In the world’s history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing – the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first … is unknown; but it … Read more