Patent Law Stifles Innovation

18 June 2003

Today’s New York Times – believable or not – has a story in it concerning Linus Torvalds and some of his views on the SCO lawsuit against IBM. The paper quotes him as having said in an email:

”I do not look up any patents on principle because (a) it’s a horrible waste of time and (b) I don’t want to know.” Linus Torvalds

In other news, Torvalds yesterday announced he is taking a leave of absence from Transmeta to focus again on Linux.

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