Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--f31fc1-=3Cb=3EA=3C/b=3E: And do you want the/en

A: And do you want the company to get sued because in your large program there are five different things that somebody, that five different people already patented? Now it's clear to see the myth that you are operating on, it's the naive idea that, when you develop a program, you will have the patent. Well, the idea, that very statement contains a mistake because there is no such thing as the patent. When you develop a program with many different things in it, there are many things, each of which might be patented by somebody else already, and you find out about them one by one when they come to you, saying: &ldquo;either pay us a lot of money, or else shut down.&rdquo; And when you dealt with five of them, you never know when number six is going to come along. It's much safer to be in the software field if you know you are not going to get sued as long as you wrote the program yourself.