@masonwheeler:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html?_r=2&oref=slogin
quoting a memo from 1991:
"Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, ?If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today?s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.? Mr. Gates worried that ?some large company will patent some obvious thing? and use the patent to ?take as much of our profits as they want.? "
I can't easily find the original quote from 1991 but here's some more info (source may be biased):
http://www.msversus.org/microsoft-patents.html
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