[Gllug] BBC: Software patents 'threaten Linux'

[Rev Simon Rumble]

Software patents 'threaten Linux'

Open source advocate Bruce Perens tells BBC technology correspondent
Clark Boyd why the real threat to Linux and the open source movement
is not from the SCO lawsuits, but from software patents. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3422853.stm

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Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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Trickle-down theory--the less than elegant metaphor that if
one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to
the road for the sparrows.

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