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Nathaniel Borenstein Quotes

born 1957 United States

Nathaniel S. Borenstein (born September 23, 1957) is an American computer scientist.

United States
Computer scientists

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Software patents may be used as a form of outright coercion, providing protection against theft of ideas as a potentially high cost to future inventors.

As more and more good ideas come under the protection of patents, it may become increasingly unlikely that any one program can incorporate the state of the art in user-interface design without sinking into a quagmire of unending royalty payments and legal battles.

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathaniel Borenstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.