[Am-info] Bill Gates on Software Patents

[Roy Bixler]

Just came across the following Bill Gates quote at

"http://www.laisen.dk/Software_Patents.2465.0.html"

and found it intriguing.  Does anyone have more context on it?

    If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of
    today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the
    industry would be at a complete standstill today.

    The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with
    no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the
    giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established
    companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.

-- 
Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
Acid absorbs 47 times its weight in excess Reality.