In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly. (Nathan Myhrvold)

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

Nathan Myhrvold

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