Masters of Doom
I've been reading Masters of Doom, which is a very inspiring book for a developer such as myself to read. I came across this quote attributed to John Carmack, founder at id Software and one of the subjects of the book, and it really resonated with me.
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
- On software patents, Quoted in John Carmack: Knee Deep in the VooDoo Voodoo Extreme