youngbrain: GmbH: Software patents are a prohibition of free thought

Silvan Rehberger is the CEO of the youngbrain: GmbH in Freiburg. Together with network partners the youngbrain: GmbH develops internet applications for NGOs, SMEs and civil service.
Silvan Rehberger
Silvan Rehberger
CEO

" The trivial software patents we are now facing are not a protection of legitimate interlectual property, but in the first place an endless list of prohibitions to think for every programmer of decent intelligence.

Software patents, metaphorically speaking, force you to bang twisted nails into the wall when you don't purchase a licence to to it straight. "

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